At up to $65 a ticket, Queensland’s newest tourist attraction is an expensive day out. But kids won’t want it to end

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Maxie and I are a few hours early for an event just a short ferry ride away and I’m anxiously refreshing an app.

It is pouring rain in Brisbane, but I’m not checking the weather radar. I’m tracking the path of one particular CityCat among the fleet of 26 cruising the swollen river.