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5. Brunswick Heads .... 1960's:

I remember fishing with handlines with Dad along the sandbars going out towards the bar. In the early 1960’s that all changed. The local council began to build basalt boulder walls all along the river from a purpose built trawler harbour up near Massey Green Caravan Park. Boulder walls that extended the bar out beyond the beach on the north and south side of the river. This was to give the trawlers a safe passage at any tide … to exit or enter river. It was otherwise very dangerous to exit or enter river on a lower tide. The trawlers could easily capsize with the rough water. See the photograph above of the trawler quietly going to sea.

See the mid photograph above .... The Brunswick River with clean green water and a far tidal rock wall. The upper channel goes up New Brighton north of Brunswick Heads. The rock wall shown was a place of spearfishing in the mid 1960’s with a homemade speargun. This was a wooden gun device and homemade trigger and a spear made from a length of thin reinforcing rod.

See the far right photograph above .... The Brunswick River with the wall that extended the bar far out beyond the beach.

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