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Dight’s Falls to be rebuilt

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Update, 18 November: Here’s an article from The Age which suggests that the Channel Deepening Project may see toxic sludge disturbed by the dredging wash back up the 22 km long tidal estuary of the Yarra all the way up to Dight’s Falls, bringing foul smells with it.
Original article: Well, it’s not the most interesting [...]

History, Parks, Walks, Yarra Bend Park, Yarra River | 1 Comment

Best new website this century? Melbourne bike paths plotted on Google world

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Now this is what I call a great inovation: Bikely.  It plots bike paths, and users’ favourite on-road bike routes, on a street directory, and lets you look at the map in three views: standard street directory, Google world satellite imagery, or the latter with key roads superimposed (‘hybrid view’). Check out the 10 km [...]

Cycling, Good as hell, Parks, Rides, Walks, Yarra Bend Park, Yarra River | 3 Comments

Tattooed lady corpse floating at Dights Falls

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

Did you hear? At 2 p.m. yesterday, a walker found a woman’s corpse wrapped in a blue sheet, weighed down by a large backpack full of weights. It was resting against the concrete barrier over which Dights Falls flow. We will know who it was soon enough: she had “Reggie” and “Elsie” tatts adorning her [...]

Crime, Parks, Walks, Yarra Bend Park, Yarra River | 2 Comments

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