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9. Forest Beside The River ....

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8. Saturday Nights At Brunswick Heads: Often there would be communal Saturday night music concerts in the early 1960’s in the park where the footbridge goes over to the surf beach. We would go down as a family to hear the concert. One the songs was ‘What A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts’ was a favourite. See the photographs above.

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7. The Boat Harbour:
In the early 1960’s there were just bare sandbanks along the entire river to the estuary bar leading to the open ocean. The trawler Fleet would be moored at a series of wooden posts with a wooden ramps. When the tide came in, the ramps would be cut off by deep water behind the ramps. Groups of teenagers would fish with handlines off the ramps and off the backs of the trawlers. You catch bream, whiting and the occasional flathead.

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 to 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 of or enter river. It was otherwise very dangerous to exit of or enter river on a lower tide. The trawlers could easily capsize with the rough water. See the photographs above.

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6. The Brunswick River with wall that extended the bar out beyond the beach.

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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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4. Camping At Brunswick Heads 1960's: We would often camp at Brunswick at Massey Green Caravan Park in a tent in the Christmas holidays in the 1960’s. In the early 1960’s there were just bare sandbanks along the entire river to the estuary bar leading to the open ocean. Thr trawler Fleet would be moored at a series of wooden posts with a wooden ramps. When the tide came in, the ramps would be cut off by deep water behind the ramps. Groups of teenagers would fish with handlines off the ramps and off the backs of the trawlers. You catch bream, whiting and the occasional flathead.

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 to 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 of or enter river. It was otherwise very dangerous to exit of or enter river on a lower tide. The trawlers could easily capsize with the rough water. See the photographs above .... one of many along the whole river.

The Brunswick River with clean green water and 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.
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3. This Brunswick Community Shed had many associations: Community Housy Housy