Will the herons return? Just one week after the fire in Montague, a thick black smoke plume visible across the Bay signalled a fire in the west. Shortly after 5 am on Thursday 30 August, MFB fire crews arrived at an out of control blaze at a warehouse on Somerville Road in West Footscray. The …
Yarra & Bay
Waste Artists
Now we are all warriors - in the war against waste. The waste warriors take to their boats and become ocean crusaders. There are also the waste transformers who create visual poetry from the discarded and abandoned to speak to us. Carolyn Cardinet is a French born, local and international …
Excluded
There is a snag in the Yarra River Protection (Wilip-gin Birrarung murron) Act 2017. Snags - sticks, logs, trunks, trees and roots - were once a feature of the Yarra River. Snags made the River difficult to navigate and were part of the rationale for digging the Coode Canal. To facilitate and …
Imagine the Yarra
Two years ago I posted about heading up the Yarra catchment to Darebin Parklands to think with others about how to ensure Labor kept its 2014 election promise to protect the Yarra River. Two years later. So much has been done. In September 2017, the Yarra River Protection (Wilip-gin Birrarung …
Two stories of the River
Benjamin Hoare’s Jubilee History of the Melbourne Harbor Trust 1877 - 1927 is essential reading here at Port Places. I'm charmed by his expression and the presentation. The tome includes tablecloth sized maps, friezes of ships decorate the pages, and each chapter leads with a Port themed …
Yarra Blitz
On a (rare) cold, wet and squally day, waves lapped on the shore of the Yarra River at Westgate Park. Back and forth washed the post-storm familiar mix of plastic bottles, polystyrene and wrappers, tantalisingly out of reach of the Tangaroa Blue clean up volunteers because of the high tide. It …