Brisbane
Rivers and Lakes of the River City
River City has a wide array of paddling opportunities, with the Brisbane River passing right through the centre of the city.
The Brisbane River is a river with four characteristics.
- The first is a small farmland stream that rarely flows down into Lake Wivenhoe.
- The second is the Lake Wivenhoe, the largest lake in South East Queensland. This is covered in the Inland Waterways section for SE Qld.
- The third is a usually gentle flowing stream that feeds water to the Mt Crosby Water Treatment Station that supplies over half of the region's drinking water.
- And finally the last main section is the lower tidal river that flows through Brisbane giving it the honourable nickname of the River City.
The latter three all offer paddlers a varied experience to explore this important river.
