Waking up to Garbage: February 5

February 5, 2002— 7:03am

The sun rises over the bay day after day, but every morning is a wholly new experience.

Looking out over the salt marshes further south along the bay, it's possible to imagine what the original tidelands may have been like in the early mornings, when the wind is down and the bay is given over to the quiet business of birds.

The Sunset garbage haulers, always up extremely early, must have seen the sun rise over what was orginally the Brisbane tidelands, and then in 1935 became the Brisbane dump. Stewart Perry's book, Collecting Garbage, describes the thoughtfulness of the garbage men on a wide range of subjects, but the sunrise or the beauty of this corner of the bay is never mentioned.

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Photos Marijke Rijsberman, 2002

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