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2070: Reimagining Birrarung
Highlights
- Paddle along the Yarra River, experiencing its vibrant ecosystem and deepening your connection to this living entity.
- Explore Birrarung's journey from Mt Baw Baw to Port Phillip Bay, reflecting on its past, present, and future.
- Engage with the Burndap Birrarung Burndap Umarkoo vision, imagining a harmonious future for both the river and community.
- Honour the river's stories and learn to care for Birrarung as you would for a loved one.
In 2017, from the efforts of Wurundjeri leaders and community activism, Birrarung (Yarra River) was legally recognised as a single living entity—from Mt Baw Baw to Port Phillip Bay—granting it the same rights as everyone.
This paddle offers a space to reimagine both Birrarung’s potential as a thriving ecosystem and people’s relationship to it. As you travel along its living waters, you will explore the river’s journey through past, present, and future, guided by the vision of Burndap Birrarung Burndap Umarkoo – (Yarra Strategic Plan) – imagining a future where what’s good for the river is good for everyone.
This experience invites deep reflection on how might one reimagine their relationship with Birrarung, especially within the built environment of Narrm (Melbourne)?
What stories have shaped your personal and collective connections to this river?
And how can a person begin to listen to and care for Birrarung as they would a loved one?
Let this be a moment to honour, imagine, and act—for the river, and for everyone.
Tour details
Features
Service facilities
This business does not currently offer accessible facilities.
Operation information
Up the Creek
Up the Creek is a social enterprise offering water based-journeys, education programs and transformative experiences across Victoria’s river’s estuaries and harbours. Up the Creek seeks to respond to the contemporary disconnect by creating immersive experiences rooted in regenerative tourism and eco-leadership.
Their programs empower both students and adults to form meaningful connections with themselves, their communities and the more-than-human world. In collaboration with Victoria’s river systems, learn with the flow – journeying along Melbourne’s lifeblood, the Birrarung, and the ancient currents of the Dhungala.
By cultivating these relationships, Up the Creek aim to inspire ethical, embodied responses to the current environmental and social challenges. Up the Creek’s commitment is to regenerate the bond between people and planet – reigniting a sense of belonging, awe and possibility.
Accreditations
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Sustainable Tourism Accreditation by ATIC
Memberships
- Victoria Tourism Industry Council
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