Here are a few photos I took during and after the floods around my side of the city in January 2011. (Click for full size pictures.)
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- The water was much closer to the bridge than normal, but people were still driving over it. You can just see some big pieces of debris washed up against the bridge supports.
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- A big piece of debris floated by. I think it was a bit of footpath or the Riverwalk.
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- A group of pigeons shelters above the flood at the Kangaroo Point cliffs.
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- The Eagle Street Pier was underwater.
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- The Riverwalk at the base of the Kangaroo Point cliffs was destroyed. This is a shot from the top of the cliffs of the water rising over lamp posts.
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- The Thornton Street ferry terminal at night. The water is up over the pontoon, the terminal above, and up to the footpath above that.
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- After the floods, residents and volunteers have been faced with moving a hell of a lot of mud from their properties. This man is shovelling it off the Riverside Promenade at Kangaroo Point.
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- Mud on the ground and a high water mark. The river came up to about waist height here.
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- A ruined ferry pontoon sticks out of the river.
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- The Riverwalk is gone now – what wasn’t washed away in the floods has been torn down.
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- It made my day, among all the destruction, to spot this little water dragon hunkering in the mud by the river.
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- Most people moved their boats to somewhere safe, but a few risked leaving them in the marina. The guy shouldn’t have.
