Bribie Island · Pumicestone Passage
MV Ferryman no longer runs from Pacific Harbour Marina. If you arrived here looking to book a cruise, the operators below still run on Pumicestone Passage and Moreton Bay.
Ferryman ran a two-hour lunch cruise up the Passage with commentary. No single operator replaced it, so the closest alternative depends on what you had in mind.
Brisbane Cruises
A two-hour scenic lunch cruise on the sheltered water off Bribie, with a BBQ lunch — steak, sausages, salads, bread and fruit — cooked fresh on board. The nearest thing going to Ferryman's Captain's Lunch Cruise, though it leaves from the other side of the island.
Bribie Island Gondola
A small licensed gondola running the Banksia Beach canals and out onto the Passage with the Glasshouse Mountains behind — breakfast, lunch, dinner and sunset sails, with wine, chocolates or a fruit platter. It leaves from 41 Harbour Promenade, the same berth MV Ferryman used. Suited to a couple or a small group rather than a party of fifty.
Fish Moreton
Bay and offshore charters out of Bribie Island, if fishing rather than sightseeing is what you were after.
Ferryman Cruises operated MV Ferryman, a purpose-built 52-seat eco-cruiser with covered seating, an open upper deck and a licensed bar, from Pacific Harbour Marina at Banksia Beach on Bribie Island. Its best-known trip was the Captain's Lunch Cruise, two hours up the Pumicestone Passage to Little Goat Island with lunch and skipper commentary, and it also ran morning tea and sunset cruises and took group charters. The business has ceased operating.
Pumicestone Passage itself is unchanged — the narrow, shallow channel between Bribie Island and the mainland, a Ramsar-listed wetland and marine park where dolphins, dugong and migratory shorebirds are all regularly seen from the water.