The North Wall Project
A self-funded marine research and conservation project at the North Wall, where the Brunswick River meets the sea at New Brighton. A daily photographic record of a small, living stretch of coast.
Overview
Where the river meets the sea.
The North Wall sits where the Brunswick River meets the sea at New Brighton, a modest stretch of training wall, shifting sand and rock pool that changes constantly and is watched by almost no one in a systematic way.
Coastlines like it move season to season, but those changes are rarely recorded with any consistency. The slow story of how the sand travels, how the pools fill and empty, and what lives there goes largely undocumented.
The discipline
Show up and record.
The North Wall Project is built on a simple discipline: show up and record. We photograph the wall, the foreshore and the rock pools every day, building a continuous visual record of how the sand banks shift, how the pools change with the tides, and what moves through with the seasons.
It is funded personally and driven by curiosity rather than a brief. Over time the record has captured Bryde's whales, manta rays, dolphins, turtles, sharks, rays and white-bellied sea eagles working the same patch of coast. Observation comes first; conclusions follow the evidence.
What it builds
A record that makes change visible.
Watched one day at a time, a small stretch of coast becomes a baseline, and the slow shifts that would otherwise pass unseen start to show.
A daily photographic record
A growing day-by-day record of the North Wall, foreshore and rock pools across seasons and tides.
Documented nearshore sightings
Bryde's whales, manta rays, dolphins, turtles, sharks, rays and white-bellied sea eagles working the same patch of coast.
A working baseline
A record of sand movement and rock-pool change that makes year-on-year shifts visible.
Openly shared knowledge
A self-funded contribution to local marine knowledge, patiently observed and openly shared.
From the wall
The marine life that moves through with the tides.
A record built one day at a time: the wall, the foreshore and the rock pools, and what passes close to shore with the seasons.
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