Quiet as a mouse.
The confluence of Schulz Canal (commences as Kedron Brook) and Moreton Bay at Nudgee Beach lookedcalm and entirely benign when I took this shot sometime ago. There is a small jetty which is adjacent to a dog park and if you walk out along the canal on the left hand side, the beach is an off leash dog walking area. The opposite side of the canal included the old suburb of Cribb Island and Jackson's Estate, subsumed during a major Brisbane airport upgrade some 40 years ago. That area is now well out of bounds and given that the recently opened second main runway is closer this way, all the more an area not to venture into. If you zoom in a bit, you will see a bulk tanker on its way into the Brisbane River and Port of Brisbane which sits out off the end of the airport.
Since the shot was taken, the disastrous February floods have been and gone. The canal, which for most of its length is known as Kedron Brook and wends its way serenely through the suburbs and parkland carried what was probably a record amount of water out into the Bay. In fact, where it passed the big shopping mall at Toombul which usually loses its car park in significant floods, it completely inundated the shopping centre for the first time since it opened in 1967 to the extent that it is now closed and being restored, not expecting to reopen until very late in the year.
Quiet as a mouse.
The confluence of Schulz Canal (commences as Kedron Brook) and Moreton Bay at Nudgee Beach lookedcalm and entirely benign when I took this shot sometime ago. There is a small jetty which is adjacent to a dog park and if you walk out along the canal on the left hand side, the beach is an off leash dog walking area. The opposite side of the canal included the old suburb of Cribb Island and Jackson's Estate, subsumed during a major Brisbane airport upgrade some 40 years ago. That area is now well out of bounds and given that the recently opened second main runway is closer this way, all the more an area not to venture into. If you zoom in a bit, you will see a bulk tanker on its way into the Brisbane River and Port of Brisbane which sits out off the end of the airport.
Since the shot was taken, the disastrous February floods have been and gone. The canal, which for most of its length is known as Kedron Brook and wends its way serenely through the suburbs and parkland carried what was probably a record amount of water out into the Bay. In fact, where it passed the big shopping mall at Toombul which usually loses its car park in significant floods, it completely inundated the shopping centre for the first time since it opened in 1967 to the extent that it is now closed and being restored, not expecting to reopen until very late in the year.