Just because your hols are over, doesn't mean the summer fun has to end. We're making the most of these last, precious, heady days of sweat mo's and sunscreen and brining you our definitive list of things to do in Brisbane before summer's really, truly over.
- Climb Mt Coot-Tha and watch the sunrise
- Bitch about sand in your swimmers
- Smash a family pack of Zooper Doopers
- Give that ‘clean eating’ fad a whirl with a lip-smackin’ summer salad
- Submerge yourself in a bath of ice and really beat the heat
- Go hog-wild on a tray of mangoes
- Bliss out at Moonlight cinema in New Farm Park
- Flaunt your whimsical flash tattoos
- Hold a memorial service for all the plants in your garden
- Stare tearfully into the sky and bid a fond farewell to the sun
- Rekindle those carefree childhood summers with an unnecessarily combative water bomb fight with your fully grown siblings
- Complete your annual pilgrimage of beach day trips to Burleigh, Noosa and Straddie
- Journey out to Cedar Creek and frolic with the earthchildren
- Work your way through these suckers
- Brush up on your desert survival knowledge with a ‘Man vs Wild: Sahara’ marathon, just in case you get caught in the midday sun
- Crochet yourself a new bikini and have it tie-dyed
- Get innovated and inebriated at GOMA’s Future Beauty Up Late
- Take a summer road trip to the coast and fry your breakfast on the bonnet of your car
- Clean out your temple with a 3-day Press’d juice cleanse #kale4eva
- Sit on the pier with takeaway fish and chips and watch them all get stolen by a seagull
- Poke your head in Kiss the Berry’s new Southbank store and try one of their mango and blueberry summer bowls
- Keep up your caffeine addiction with a refreshing cold press from Hops, Scotch & Beans
- Or simultaneously cool down and perk up with a latte pop from Dandelion & Driftwood
- Take down your Christmas lights
- Play fast and loose with the weather forecast and hop around to all of Brisbane’s best rooftop bars
- Drink beer on a balcony
- Buy your ticket to Future Music and start bulking
- Get your money’s worth of that ‘All You Can Wax’ deal down at your local salon
- Dowse yourself in repellent and sleep beneath the stars
- Catch up on all the Game of Thrones you missed in time for the season five premiere
- Unplug the box and really plough through all your summer reading
- Go kiteboarding
- Stick a message in a bottle and cast it into your neighbour’s pool
- Down a crate of XXXX and make a tombola out of all your empties
- Set up a lemonade stand on your footpath and see how much loose change people are willing to give you for the antidote
- Have ice-cream as a midnight snack
- Take up fire-twirling and make friends with all the nurses in the emergency ward
- Spend as much time as possible with your favourite pair of denim cut-offs before they are no longer socially acceptable
- Slather yourself in SPF 30 and work on your thong tan
- Buy a new sun hat so large that homeless people start living under the brim
- Walk into Coles barefoot
- Grab some snags and have an outdoor BBQ in a public park courtesy of Brisbane City Council
- Fall asleep to the sound of the ocean
- Deeply regret your abstract tan lines from that spanking new one-piece
- Run through your brand new sprinkler from Bunnings
- Drink a coconut
- Pack a basket with sandwiches and Pimms and go have a picnic on top of a mountain
- Save yourself a mint on mani-pedis by wriggling your toes in the sand
- Hollow out a watermelon and carve a face in it
- Take exactly one selfie with a selfie stick and then use it primarily to scratch your back and change channels when you can’t find the remote
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