Showing posts with label Darebin Creek. Show all posts
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Thursday, 23 April 2009

Darebin Parklands, Wednesday a.m.

Finally brought my camera to Darebin Parklands yesterday morning. A short walk from our place in Ivanhoe, it's a wonderful stretch of green along Darebin Creek.
What I find especially wonderful about this park is its past history as a site of environmental degradation. (Something this former resident of NJ is sadly familiar with.) Here, a stately mulberry tree stands beside a 19th-century track that was once known as Mulberry Avenue.


Winter's approach is evident in this bark-shedding eucalyptus tree.


A pied cormorant surveys its soggy turf.

A pair of ducks cut through the swampy muck.


This is Australia, after all.

How a red gum tree gets its name.