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A bird’s eye view of Barrambin
Previous industry surveys of the Barrambin area have recognised the locale as one of high habitat potential, especially since the re-introduction of artificial ponds along the Inner City Bypass in the 1930s (SKM Connell Wagner, 2008). The zone sports forests of native eucalyptus and melaleuca trees and 20 native animal species (SKM Aurecon, 2011; SKM…
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Walking with the ghost of the waterways
Swamps are transitional spaces, neither land nor water. The boundaries of the Barrambin wetlands and waterways would have been ever-shifting, rising and falling as the wet and dry seasons came and went in turns. It was a living thing, drawing water into itself, and exhaling it in drought. Like all swamps, Barrambin would have gathered…
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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…
