YARRA AT ABBOTSFORD

The Yarra River or historically, the Yarra Yarra River, (Aboriginal: Birrarung, and Wongete) is a perennial river in east-central Victoria, Australia. The lower stretches of the river are where the city of Melbourne was established in 1835 and today Greater Melbourne dominates and influences the landscape of its lower reaches.

From its source in the Yarra Ranges, it flows 242 kilometres west through the Yarra Valley which opens out into plains as it winds its way through Greater Melbourne before emptying into Hobsons Bay in northernmost Port Phillip. The river was a major food source and meeting place for indigenous Australians from prehistoric times. Shortly after the arrival of European settlers land clearing forced the remaining Wurundjeri to neighbouring territories and away from the river. Originally called Birrarung by the Wurundjeri, the current name was mistranslated from another Wurundjeri term in the Boonwurrung language; Yarro-yarro, meaning "ever-flowing".

Here the river at Abbotsford, in the Yarra Bend Park. The first photo looks towards the North, the second and third towards the South and towards the Abbotsford Beer Breweries. All still looks quite green because of our cool, wet Spring and lack of early Summer heat.

This post is part of the Friday Greens meme,

and also part of the Weekend Reflections meme,

and also part of the Scenic Weekends meme.