On this grey showery solstice morning, the Port Melbourne Icebergs took the inaugural solstice plunge. Nearby, a man holding a wreath to his chest swam out into the bay, and returned without it. It was an olive wreath, said the swimmer, created on 1 May and set adrift on 21 June - a more ancient …
All about the Bay
Landscape and citizen led transformation The photo is harsh and stark in its black and greyness. Taken not long after the completion of the Westgate Bridge, it is an engineering portrait taken from an aerial vantage point somewhere above Webb Dock. Take a look at the ground plane. All that …
EES – 1987 & 2017
Environmental Effects Statement under the Environment Effects Act 1978 The house at 58 Station Street is for sale. Somehow this very small house has survived. Thirty years ago Mrs Myrtle Tims, then 89, sat on her verandah in the late afternoon sun mourning the loss of the Port Melbourne …
Future Port
The advice is in. Bay West is preferred to Hastings as the location for Melbourne's future port, according to advice given to the Victorian Government by Infrastructure Victoria. The trigger for the move is suggested to be when Port capacity reaches 8 million TEU which it anticipates will be …
Lagoon Reserve
Lagoon Reserve is a small park in Port Melbourne that was once part of the Sandridge Lagoon. How to describe the essence of this park? It has people at its centre, and 'nature' at its edges. That grassy centre gets a workout every day of the week, all year round. A gathering place for people …
Sand
They may not quite be the ridges that gave Sandridge its name but Port's dunes are beginning to undulate - their soft forms covered with coastal grasses. Sand accretes in some places and decreases in others as the sand swishes around Hobsons Bay. Beaches are managed and manicured and …