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Spring walk – past, present, future
As part of our ongoing review of the present-day Barrambin site, I have previously undertaken three walks through the parklands: on 9 August 2022 (9-11am), 11 August 2022 (1-4pm), and 16 August 2022 (7-8pm). These are captured in the site’s gallery page. After the first three walks revealed interesting insights about the Victoria Park Parklands,…
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Mapping the waters on the urban present
The map below represents the pre-colonial wetlands and creeks overlaid on present-day infrastructure. Locations of waterways and swampland are approximated, based on two colonial maps—Henry Wade’s Map of the Environs of Brisbane, published by the Surveyor General’s Department (Wade, 1844) and Blueprint copy of a plan of Brisbane Town published by the Moreton Bay District…
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Water paths, topographic imprints
The waterways of Barrambin are not gone; they have simply been rendered invisible. Strung out along the full extent of Barrambin’s original waterbed, hidden under concrete and drain covers, are a series of subterranean stormwater drains that together carry the currents which once flowed through the wetland. Not all surface evidence of the waterways has…
