You're definitely what Hobart needed in the mini-doco department! Yes, the true standard to judge a city... by their interestingness being investigated in the public realm.
Thank you for posting .I got taken by a friend along the underground area of the rivulet, running under the city, with no torch and no idea what I was getting into. A real adventure and quite scary in the pitch black in places.
Twenty years I have lived in Hobart, and your have taught me more about it's history in two days of me dropping by just a few of your videos than all of that time.
Since the eighties it's slowly getting better, raw sewage would come out under the wharf sometimes, at austins ferry sea grass is growing again . My boat would get a bath ring on it in the nineties, it's way better now , having big industries on the river with slack pollution guidelines didn't help
This was really interesting. I actually remember my mates and I walking past that man made river just behind the village cinemas. Loving the videos mate!
Did you ever check out the old swimming pool on the corner of Collins and Molle streets? It's an apartment complex with a dentist on the ground floor now.
Just stumbled onto your channel yesterday. Great videos and very interesting. I grew up in Hobart but I’ve learnt a lot a lot from your content that I didn’t know. Keep up the great work. I look forward to the next one.
Thanks, Craig. If can get to 1000 subs and monetised I might be able to keep making them out into the future. I enjoy making them but they also take a lot of time to put together.
@@angusthornett I've subscribed. I love learning about my neighbourhood (I can walk to cascade gardens in about 45 seconds). Can I share this video with my son's grade 5 teacher at South Hobart primary?
Cheers, Paul. I'm trying to get the subscribers up, so that the channel can become sustainable and I can continue to post content. If you feel so inclined, don't be afraid to share my videos on facebook and alike.
And the next injustice we'll get at the regatta ground will be a humongous football stadium, when what we really need there is the third last light rail stop before the CBD.
basically the story with all rivers in Australia, starts off beautiful and crystal clear, drinkable with minimal problems, then once it runs through populous and even through the city it just all turns into something that the country isn't proud of... then claims "what do you want us to do about it? stop mining? we would lose money!" Then they pass the blame to the residents... shame...
Great video. I was in Hobart a few weeks ago. The bus driver on the run up to Mt Wellington gave us a potted history of the Rivulet. Later I glimpsed it in the Elizabeth Street mall, and also beside the hospital. I decided to follow it to the point where it met the sea. So that's at least one tourist who's been there. And you're right - it's not impressive.
The old Habitat shop in Liverpool St had a coffee shop in a narrow gap between two walls. Between the walls was once a lane way from Liverpool St down to the rivulet. On the bank were some sandstone steps. The women of Hobart would go down the steps to do their washing. Just a little bit of history I found when searching the land tenure. I wonder if the steps were walled in by the tunnel?
@@angusthornett came up in a deeds office search in the Land Titles Office. The dolls heads on the rivulet is pretty weird. Sort of like the ledge on the organ pipes I have seen. Lined with garden gnomes. Nice vid.
I wondered where it came out. I knew it went under the CBD, but hadn’t thought too much more about it. Kinda sad that it was redirected through built tunnels. . . .
Thanks heaps, mate. Appreciate you supporting the channel. There’s a three part series on South Hobart coming out in March. A lot of work has gone into it.
ps. I’ve walked the length from where it passes under Collins st, all the way to partly under Campbell St, in the days when it was not permitted and there were no tour groups. The sandstone tunnel that runs up the middle of Elizabeth St is cool, bit very cramped.
This one is a little disappointing. There is so much more on the mountain side to be explored before the city. As to the "contamination measure", a simple look at colouration or suspended solids is not an accurate check. Some of the finest drinkable Tasmanian wilderness water is stained brown by natural tannins (not saying that the Hobart Rivulet is such!!). Muddy water can also be safe to drink once settled. The problems with contamination of the rivulet are more complex.
You're definitely what Hobart needed in the mini-doco department!
Yes, the true standard to judge a city... by their interestingness being investigated in the public realm.
Thank you, glad you're getting something out of them.
Thank you for telling me where the rivulet ends. All Hobartians need to know this
Yeah, not something you think of.
Thank you for posting .I got taken by a friend along the underground area of the rivulet, running under the city, with no torch and no idea what I was getting into. A real adventure and quite scary in the pitch black in places.
As a Hobartian I thoroughly enjoy your videos. I have lived here my whole life and have learnt a lot from your videos. This one included. Thank you.
Twenty years I have lived in Hobart, and your have taught me more about it's history in two days of me dropping by just a few of your videos than all of that time.
Love all your stories , and those philosophical endings are beautiful . You shine a light on the ordinary that way comes extraordinary.
Since the eighties it's slowly getting better, raw sewage would come out under the wharf sometimes, at austins ferry sea grass is growing again . My boat would get a bath ring on it in the nineties, it's way better now , having big industries on the river with slack pollution guidelines didn't help
That's true.
The CGI seagull is the cherry on top. Nice work.. you're oddly soothing to listen to
Fellow tasmanian and also an environmentalist, just come across your videos, very information, thankyou 😀
really awesome stuff!!!
thank you for your angle
Love your work, thank you
Loving your videos mate. Keep up the great work!!
Thanks pal, I'll try to.
This was really interesting. I actually remember my mates and I walking past that man made river just behind the village cinemas. Loving the videos mate!
Did you ever check out the old swimming pool on the corner of Collins and Molle streets? It's an apartment complex with a dentist on the ground floor now.
@@davidlillecrapp2960 No I haven't
Just stumbled onto your channel yesterday. Great videos and very interesting. I grew up in Hobart but I’ve learnt a lot a lot from your content that I didn’t know. Keep up the great work. I look forward to the next one.
Thanks, Craig. If can get to 1000 subs and monetised I might be able to keep making them out into the future. I enjoy making them but they also take a lot of time to put together.
@@angusthornett I wish you well. I shall showcase to others as much as I can.
@@angusthornett I've subscribed. I love learning about my neighbourhood (I can walk to cascade gardens in about 45 seconds). Can I share this video with my son's grade 5 teacher at South Hobart primary?
@@davidlillecrapp2960 Of course, mate.
i've explored almost every tunnel under hobart and it really is worth it to get an idea of what goes on underneath us every day
Just love these videos fantastic keep doing these would love to see one on tunnels under the main block I believe near myer I was told.
Really enjoyable videos Angus. Your a very good presenter, Thank you
Cheers, Paul. I'm trying to get the subscribers up, so that the channel can become sustainable and I can continue to post content. If you feel so inclined, don't be afraid to share my videos on facebook and alike.
Inspiring work. Well done mate!
Thanks, mate. Good to hear you got something from it.
Enjoyed that, nice work. I was thinking of making a similar style doco titled "The Tragedy that is Hobart's Architecture"
Cheers, mate.
Thank you Angus!
Platypus live in the upper riverlet. It needs regeneration and replanting like the river that was regenerated in the Korean city of Seoul.
I'm a cat person, but your dog is fantastic, he's a real beauty. Good dog right there.
Great vid as well.
Great video, I never knew where the Rivulet ended. You have a cute dog too.
Nice story Angus. Though it comes as no surprise that when a pretty babbling brook flows into an urban area it is turned into a storm water drain.
Thanks, Chris.
And the next injustice we'll get at the regatta ground will be a humongous football stadium, when what we really need there is the third last light rail stop before the CBD.
basically the story with all rivers in Australia, starts off beautiful and crystal clear, drinkable with minimal problems, then once it runs through populous and even through the city it just all turns into something that the country isn't proud of... then claims "what do you want us to do about it? stop mining? we would lose money!"
Then they pass the blame to the residents... shame...
Excellent video. Would love to go for a walk down there one day... I remember hearing there was a shrine of toy heads down there
Thank you. And there is.
Nice work man. Last time I walked under Hobart I saw about 5 fish just swimming up stream
Thanks. Cool.
Great video again..
Thanks, dude
I learnt something, although a Tasmanian l grew up in Melbourne, this was very informative. Also interesting because l work at Macquarie Point.
Thanks, Sarah.
Dear little dog I had one exactly the same mine died of Cushing's very hard.
Your little mate loves it.❤️ May I ask your doggo's name?
Excellent
Half the water supply is diverted at a point just up from the Strickland Ave Bus turning circle. Providing a water supply for a commercial business.
Interesting
Good story nicely told.
Thank you, Phillip
Great video. I was in Hobart a few weeks ago. The bus driver on the run up to Mt Wellington gave us a potted history of the Rivulet.
Later I glimpsed it in the Elizabeth Street mall, and also beside the hospital. I decided to follow it to the point where it met the sea. So that's at least one tourist who's been there. And you're right - it's not impressive.
The old Habitat shop in Liverpool St had a coffee shop in a narrow gap between two walls. Between the walls was once a lane way from Liverpool St down to the rivulet. On the bank were some sandstone steps. The women of Hobart would go down the steps to do their washing. Just a little bit of history I found when searching the land tenure. I wonder if the steps were walled in by the tunnel?
I didn't know about that. Interesting.
@@angusthornett came up in a deeds office search in the Land Titles Office. The dolls heads on the rivulet is pretty weird. Sort of like the ledge on the organ pipes I have seen. Lined with garden gnomes. Nice vid.
I wondered where it came out. I knew it went under the CBD, but hadn’t thought too much more about it. Kinda sad that it was redirected through built tunnels. . . .
there is another riverlet that flows into the hobart riverlet it comes down though campbell street under the theatre royal
That is really sad.
Thanks
Thanks heaps, mate. Appreciate you supporting the channel. There’s a three part series on South Hobart coming out in March. A lot of work has gone into it.
I have seen fish and platypuse in it
The tunnel from the bottom of Collins St to the outlet is actually almost straight, and doesn’t follow the the curved path as you showed on the video.
ps. I’ve walked the length from where it passes under Collins st, all the way to partly under Campbell St, in the days when it was not permitted and there were no tour groups. The sandstone tunnel that runs up the middle of Elizabeth St is cool, bit very cramped.
Here's another look at the Hobart Rivulet, by bike:
czcams.com/video/Qr8W8FiEA_E/video.html
This one is a little disappointing. There is so much more on the mountain side to be explored before the city. As to the "contamination measure", a simple look at colouration or suspended solids is not an accurate check. Some of the finest drinkable Tasmanian wilderness water is stained brown by natural tannins (not saying that the Hobart Rivulet is such!!). Muddy water can also be safe to drink once settled. The problems with contamination of the rivulet are more complex.
how dare the build a human settlement on a fresh water source in 1805
Those pommie convicts were busy
They were not all ‘ pommie ‘. They came from as far afield as what was then Lower & Upper Canada. Not to mention Ireland.
What the salmon farms are doing is Toxic. I won't ever buy or eat Tassy salmon ever again. Such a fight going on over this.
They have nothing to do with the Rivulet.
Struggling to find the point really
an alpha male with an old lady dog iam so confused