This unnamed creek is a tributary to Kedron Brook. At caches
like "Mighty Ducks - Upper Kedron", "Little Black Duck", and "Park
with a Boat" you can see how minor water courses like this have
been landscaped into attractive features of their neighbourhoods.
This is a much older development, and unfortunately, here they've
taken a different approach. I do think it has a certain industrial
aesthetic to it but it's hard not to think of it as an opportunity
lost.
To the south the creek emerges from underground in four huge
pipes. The branch off to the west has a series of baffles that look
like they're intended to stop a tank invasion. Downstream, just the
far side of Samford Rd, the concrete gives way to a natural stream.
In recent years they've put a debris screen at Samford Rd (good)
but before that we sometimes saw very forlorn looking turtles who
had lost their way and headed upstream into this section.
Downfall Creek, upstream of "Hawk", is another example of a
stream being given this treatment.