Creeks, lost and found
Creeks can be buried or turned into concrete, but they never leave us. They live on in the shape and uses of the landscape. They reassert themselves as floods. They tell stories of our past, present and future, if we care to listen.
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Western Creek
A historic waterway that flowed through the suburbs and localities of Bardon, Rainworth and Milton before meeting the Brisbane River.
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Langsville Creek
A historic waterway flowing through parts of Toowong and Auchenflower, including the Toowong Cemetery, the Mount Coot-tha Gardens and Anzac Park.
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Boundary Creek
A historic watercourse that formed in the slopes of Paddington, Red Hill and Petrie Terrace, incorporating the swamp that became Lang Park.
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Brisbane River
The flooding of the Brisbane River into the Western Creek catchment in 2011 planted the seed from which this website grew.
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Toowong Creek
A partly intact creek that starts in Mount Coot-tha above the South-Western Freeway and drains much of Toowong and Taringa.
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Stable Swamp Creek
A tributary of Oxley Creek that flows through Sunnybank, Coopers Plains, Salisbury, and Rocklea.
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Norman Creek
A largely intact but heavily modified waterway draining parts of Mount Gravatt, Greenslopes, Coorparoo, Woolloongabba and Norman Park.
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Wheat Creek
A historic creek that once flowed through Brisbane’s CBD, and provided the settlement’s first water supply.
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Rocky Waterholes Creek
A tributary of Oxley Creek that flows through Rocklea, Moorooka and Salisbury.
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Ithaca Creek
A largely intact creek beginning in Mount Coot-tha and flowing through Bardon, Ashgrove and Red Hill before joining with Enoggera Creek.
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Cubberla Creek
A partly intact creek that begins in Mount Coot-tha and flows through Chapel Hill, Kenmore and Fig Tree Pocket.
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Enoggera Creek
A large and mostly intact creek extending deep into the D’Aguilar Range and incorporating Enoggera Reservoir before flowing through The Gap, Ashgrove, Red Hill, Kelvin Grove, Herston, Albion and Newstead, by which point it has become Breakfast Creek.