I grew up in the adjacent suburb Marsden in the 70's and 80's; although when we first moved there it was known as Kingston. We used to take a shortcut through the creek to get to Kingston High School, cutting out a good half hour as opposed to using the roads. During rainy weather, it used to flood but it didn't matter, we'd just push our bikes through the water. On weekends, we used to swim to cool off and catch yabbies there. We called the area 'White Sands' because it had pristine white sand, the likes of any beautiful beach you could ever find - no doubt it's the reason it was mined there. I have such fond memories of the virgin bush and lagoon. It certainly looks nothing like it used to.
UA-camrs should tune into your clips to glean some basic but often lacking skills in production. Keep em coming mate I love what you do in relation to Southside history. I'm probably a few years older & also grew up here so we share similar interests with our pioneering history and know the areas you cover but you put context in what I already know. I metal detect as a hobby and gain good insight to plan my adventures every time you post. Cheers !
@Ninja Moves thank you so much for your supportive comments. Really means a lot to me. Actually I'm a Sydney boy, but have been in Brissy for many years. Have you found some interesting artefacts recently?
JJ Smith Park lake area was created for flood mitigation. I've lived in the area my whole life 30 years ago as children we used to be able to jump across the creek. It always flooded. After the area was "dug out" the flooding up over Princess Street stopped.
Hi Rob, Just wondering if you are going to do the Redbank area which was the site of the large US Military base during WW2. So much history in the region, including the first coal mine etc.
The rifle range shooting mounds that can be seen looking south from Smiths Road Goodna held soldiers from 3 generations of Aussie folklore history WW1 WW2 Korea & Vietnam serving men and women that served us many thousand probably not to return home afterwards. I've metal detected that tract of bush and is absolutely littered with vintage military ordinance waste. I wouldn't recommend the location from what I've uncovered there could be literally anything in there that could still go bang !
The Lakes at Scrubby Creek in Princess Street were NEVER sand mining holes. Berrinba Wetlands is where the sandmining was. Ive lived opposite the Big Lake for thirty six years. People used to dump rubbish there and when it severely flooded in 1989, residents formed a Flood Group and lobbied to have the creek cleaned out for flood mitigation. 11 thousand cubic metres of rubbish was removed along with contaminated sand . The three Lakes are artificial but were never mined.
@Muddy Waters Sand mining occurred at several locations along Scrubby Creek. The largest works were at Berrinba and these began just after World War 2. However, The Lakes at Marsden was also a site of sand mining though on a smaller scale. This continued through the 1950's and into the early 60's before being shut down.
Sorry mate, but the question as to why there are all the tyres dumped in the creeks draws a sad wry smile from me. The stupidity of our 'experts" making the executive decisions never fails to astound me. Their knowledge of the average yobbo's psyche seems non existent. If you slap a charge (and not an inconsequential one) on the disposal of used tyres at the local tips rather than add a refundable "deposit" at point of purchase, there is only ever going to be 1 result! It has taken decades for the shinybutts to reinstate the deposit on bottles that kept the landscape mostly free of broken glass in my youth. (And provided pocket money for many a kid in those days.) I don't hold out hope for any speedier epiphany as to the renegade rubber!
Not sure about the tyres but the container recycling scheme was held up by industry that said the cost of recycling would cost too much. Coca Cola said the cost of changing the label to add the symbol/words would cause the cost to increase so much that the Mum & Pop franchises and there would be many job losses and such red tape was anti competitive etc. Of course a few months later they had the promotion of having your name on a label so it wasn't true but no politician at the time was keen on causing a campaign funded by coco cola playing on every TV radio and social media etc. It took a lot of lobbying for them to feel like standing up for the scheme. I am not sure about the tyre industry but find it easy to believe they would take the same approach rather than have to give money to the government for a recycling type scheme when they can get away with fobbing off the responsibility all together.
I grew up in Kingston from the early 70's and attended Kingston High till the mid 80's. Scrubby Creek used to run behind the school, before the Logan Motorway. Was a favourite spot for the kids wagging school. There was also an old quarry near there that I used to walk through to get to school. My Dad actually filled up a trailer with sand from the creek behind the school for some concreting he was doing.
@WalkaboutWithRob I'm sure Mum would probably have a few. She sold her place on Jacaranda Avenue in 2010. I do, however, remember the smell from the Butter factory that was still operational, and noise from the diesel trains at night. I never felt unsafe growing up there. Although, even way back then, people put a stigma on anyone living on what was thought of as the wrong side of the freeway.
Really enjoyed watching this video.... this is my home so I loved it! Am considering doing a historical bushbash journey down the entire creekline for something different. Appreciate your work!
@Jel Builder thanks so much for watching. It'd be great if you did your own video along the creek - could be a fascinating comparison to what I saw on my journey...
@@walkaboutwithrob Well, believe it or not, today I began my initial filming of this... however I'll probably be doing it in stages as a working project, we'll see. This afternoon was spent urban bushbashing along behind the Marsden Library as I made my way across Scrubby Creek to the backend of the Bega Rd trails (where the MX bikers ride). Definitely saw some interesting things and a plethora of trails there. The "shopping trolley" bridge in your video there was gone - or most likely the water was covering them - so it was traversing some fallen logs and battling lots of long grass and thick ground plants. Thankfully nil snakes today. :)
@@walkaboutwithrob Hi Rob, just wanted to let you know I've released my first section of this adventure: ua-cam.com/video/SvjREIIc6wQ/v-deo.html It's in stages as there is just so much to explore in this "other world"! 😲 Full credit to you for your inspiration on this one, I really appreciate this video you put together (and obviously your many other ones). 👍👍
@@walkaboutwithrob great video Rob and Jelbuilder did scrubby creek justice as well. I grew up around station road Loganlea and I had no idea about the rainforest, it does make sense though as I know the whole area was destroyed since it was settled and I have some memories of the gallery rainforest plants that sometimes were around the water ways
@@bennycracka9672 Thanks for your comments, glad you liked the video. And that's a good idea to follow the Oxley Creek. I've noted it down as a potential new video. Unfortunately no platypus are around Scrubby Creek anymore.
Best place to grow up. Those lakes never was there, was a full on bush creek . I grew up on woodburn st, my olds also told me about a girl drowning in the creek there
@@walkaboutwithrob Yeah I used to live nearby, bad neighbourhood, relatively. I mean its not like some bad areas in other countries but still glad I'm out of there.
I grew up in the adjacent suburb Marsden in the 70's and 80's; although when we first moved there it was known as Kingston. We used to take a shortcut through the creek to get to Kingston High School, cutting out a good half hour as opposed to using the roads. During rainy weather, it used to flood but it didn't matter, we'd just push our bikes through the water. On weekends, we used to swim to cool off and catch yabbies there. We called the area 'White Sands' because it had pristine white sand, the likes of any beautiful beach you could ever find - no doubt it's the reason it was mined there. I have such fond memories of the virgin bush and lagoon. It certainly looks nothing like it used to.
What wonderful memories. And fascinating history!
UA-camrs should tune into your clips to glean some basic but often lacking skills in production. Keep em coming mate I love what you do in relation to Southside history. I'm probably a few years older & also grew up here so we share similar interests with our pioneering history and know the areas you cover but you put context in what I already know. I metal detect as a hobby and gain good insight to plan my adventures every time you post. Cheers !
@Ninja Moves thank you so much for your supportive comments. Really means a lot to me. Actually I'm a Sydney boy, but have been in Brissy for many years. Have you found some interesting artefacts recently?
JJ Smith Park lake area was created for flood mitigation.
I've lived in the area my whole life 30 years ago as children we used to be able to jump across the creek.
It always flooded. After the area was "dug out" the flooding up over Princess Street stopped.
Rob you look a lot like Rick Grimes in this video. love the work keep it going👍
Hi Rob, Just wondering if you are going to do the Redbank area which was the site of the large US Military base during WW2. So much history in the region, including the first coal mine etc.
The rifle range shooting mounds that can be seen looking south from Smiths Road Goodna held soldiers from 3 generations of Aussie folklore history WW1 WW2 Korea & Vietnam serving men and women that served us many thousand probably not to return home afterwards. I've metal detected that tract of bush and is absolutely littered with vintage military ordinance waste. I wouldn't recommend the location from what I've uncovered there could be literally anything in there that could still go bang !
Fantastic, we use to live on Princess St Marsden our property backed onto Scrubby Crk it was a very pretty area in the 80's
The Lakes at Scrubby Creek in Princess Street were NEVER sand mining holes. Berrinba Wetlands is where the sandmining was. Ive lived opposite the Big Lake for thirty six years. People used to dump rubbish there and when it severely flooded in 1989, residents formed a Flood Group and lobbied to have the creek cleaned out for flood mitigation. 11 thousand cubic metres of rubbish was removed along with contaminated sand . The three Lakes are artificial but were never mined.
@Muddy Waters Sand mining occurred at several locations along Scrubby Creek. The largest works were at Berrinba and these began just after World War 2. However, The Lakes at Marsden was also a site of sand mining though on a smaller scale. This continued through the 1950's and into the early 60's before being shut down.
Sorry mate, but the question as to why there are all the tyres dumped in the creeks draws a sad wry smile from me. The stupidity of our 'experts" making the executive decisions never fails to astound me. Their knowledge of the average yobbo's psyche seems non existent. If you slap a charge (and not an inconsequential one) on the disposal of used tyres at the local tips rather than add a refundable "deposit" at point of purchase, there is only ever going to be 1 result! It has taken decades for the shinybutts to reinstate the deposit on bottles that kept the landscape mostly free of broken glass in my youth. (And provided pocket money for many a kid in those days.) I don't hold out hope for any speedier epiphany as to the renegade rubber!
Not sure about the tyres but the container recycling scheme was held up by industry that said the cost of recycling would cost too much. Coca Cola said the cost of changing the label to add the symbol/words would cause the cost to increase so much that the Mum & Pop franchises and there would be many job losses and such red tape was anti competitive etc. Of course a few months later they had the promotion of having your name on a label so it wasn't true but no politician at the time was keen on causing a campaign funded by coco cola playing on every TV radio and social media etc. It took a lot of lobbying for them to feel like standing up for the scheme. I am not sure about the tyre industry but find it easy to believe they would take the same approach rather than have to give money to the government for a recycling type scheme when they can get away with fobbing off the responsibility all together.
I grew up in Kingston from the early 70's and attended Kingston High till the mid 80's. Scrubby Creek used to run behind the school, before the Logan Motorway. Was a favourite spot for the kids wagging school. There was also an old quarry near there that I used to walk through to get to school. My Dad actually filled up a trailer with sand from the creek behind the school for some concreting he was doing.
@Shell I lived in Kingston for nearly ten years. Moved away about three years ago. You must have some interesting photos from all those years ago.
@WalkaboutWithRob I'm sure Mum would probably have a few. She sold her place on Jacaranda Avenue in 2010. I do, however, remember the smell from the Butter factory that was still operational, and noise from the diesel trains at night. I never felt unsafe growing up there. Although, even way back then, people put a stigma on anyone living on what was thought of as the wrong side of the freeway.
Really enjoyed watching this video.... this is my home so I loved it! Am considering doing a historical bushbash journey down the entire creekline for something different. Appreciate your work!
@Jel Builder thanks so much for watching. It'd be great if you did your own video along the creek - could be a fascinating comparison to what I saw on my journey...
@@walkaboutwithrob Well, believe it or not, today I began my initial filming of this... however I'll probably be doing it in stages as a working project, we'll see. This afternoon was spent urban bushbashing along behind the Marsden Library as I made my way across Scrubby Creek to the backend of the Bega Rd trails (where the MX bikers ride). Definitely saw some interesting things and a plethora of trails there. The "shopping trolley" bridge in your video there was gone - or most likely the water was covering them - so it was traversing some fallen logs and battling lots of long grass and thick ground plants. Thankfully nil snakes today. :)
@@jelbuilderfilms Sounds like you'll be exploring much deeper than I did, so really looking forward to seeing the video of your adventures.
@@walkaboutwithrob Hi Rob, just wanted to let you know I've released my first section of this adventure: ua-cam.com/video/SvjREIIc6wQ/v-deo.html
It's in stages as there is just so much to explore in this "other world"! 😲
Full credit to you for your inspiration on this one, I really appreciate this video you put together (and obviously your many other ones). 👍👍
@@walkaboutwithrob great video Rob and Jelbuilder did scrubby creek justice as well.
I grew up around station road Loganlea and I had no idea about the rainforest, it does make sense though as I know the whole area was destroyed since it was settled and I have some memories of the gallery rainforest plants that sometimes were around the water ways
Nice vid. Logan is a beautiful area. Has a bit of riff raff but which place doesn't?
That's a great video. Which spots am I allowed to fish?
@rufflesal I'm not sure actually. Probably best to check with Logan City Council. I do know that people fish near the Gould Adams Park area.
Great video mate! I wonder if platypus can still be found in there. We used to swim in the creek near the driving range
You should walk Oxley Creek, it starts up in the hills and starts pristine before detoriating in quality, would be interesting to see the change
@@bennycracka9672 Thanks for your comments, glad you liked the video. And that's a good idea to follow the Oxley Creek. I've noted it down as a potential new video. Unfortunately no platypus are around Scrubby Creek anymore.
Best place to grow up. Those lakes never was there, was a full on bush creek . I grew up on woodburn st, my olds also told me about a girl drowning in the creek there
Scrubby creek is longer than Slacks. Scrubby should keep its name all the way to the Logan river. Screw Slacks.
Caught heaps of Eels in 90-93
Some dodgy neighbourhoods in here
@Waiting Formate well...I Iived in the area for 12 years and it was cool and safe.
@@walkaboutwithrob Yeah I used to live nearby, bad neighbourhood, relatively. I mean its not like some bad areas in other countries but still glad I'm out of there.