Otherwise Unrecounted 2017 Summary
This digital map offers an overview of the series of accounts of, and reflections on, the happenings of the Bunurong Coast that would otherwise pass unrecorded and untold.
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Author: Rees Quilford
Reminiscing on the family weekender
This interactive historical map ‘Reminiscing on the family weekender’ offers a snapshot of the intricacies, complexities, reassurances, and discomforts that accompany my affinity for my family’s property ‘Wreck Beach Farm’ and its surrounds. It tries to understand and articulate the loss I felt when the property was sold and also comprehend the nostalgia I still hold for that place.
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The Room In Which I Sit
Overlooking green paddocks and a Manna Gum laneway my snug weekender sometimes smells like sausage fat but always of black coffee.
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Reflecting on my first visit to the Public Records Office of Victoria.
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Carparks and frivolous placemaking?
Trailing the dog, I jog into the beach side carpark in the early autumn dusk. The place is typical of Bass Coast’s remote beaches, a secluded patch of gravel cut into the scrubby dunes.
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From the heath on the ridge
Rain cloud rainbow / Blue white, blue grey, blue black / Crows picking through bracken fields. A view from the ridge at Wreck Beach Farm.
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Overlooking scrubby paddocks and an unsettled past
Observing from a tin shed overlooking scrubby paddocks and an unsettled past, I have come to see the realms of the past and the present as inherently entwined. The past informs the present, but the present is also always changing the past.
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Rewilding Wreck Beach Farm
Fences delineate once-open plains, tracks and trails have been tarred, diesel fumes catch on the breeze, trees have been felled and burnt, and ‘for sale’ signs accompany the front gate of every second property.
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Clutching a hopeful sky
An image/prose speculation on standing amongst a thicket of Tee tree on Wreck Beach Farm.
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Tagged as data, leased as real estate
This interactive digital map interrogates the contested and highly lucrative space on which tech corporations jostle for our data. But what do our digital footfalls look like? It asks what do we give up by handing over our location information?
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The Artisan Wreck
This interactive historical map narrative tells the story of the 1901 wreck of the Artisan – a three-masted 1,155 ton wooden barque – at Wreck Beach.
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An Autumn evening from the balcony
Nahla’s brown fur is bathed in the soft light of late autumn. She surveys her domain, eyes alert for signs of movement.
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Runkeeper, Wreck Beach Farm and Cow Shit resistant running shoes
run through the paddocks of Wreck Beach Farm, mobile phone in hand. Near on 132 acres of beautiful scrub on the Bunurong Coast. Need to pay attention, the ground is a little treacherous, pock-marked with hoof-prints, rabbit holes and wombat warrens.
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Following Ranee
This interactive story map documents a walk made by eight interested writers to retrace the lonely 1883 night walk made by Melbourne’s first elephant, Ranee, from the Port Melbourne police station to the Royal Melbourne Zoo in Parkville.
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Walking from Harmers Haven to Wonthaggi
An interactive map outlining the coastal trail walk from Harmers Haven to Wonthaggi undertaken on 6 June 2017.
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