You can opt for an upriver cruise, through parks, residential areas and secluded bushland, or do today’s shorter downriver trip, taking in the industrial areas, Docklands and the Port of Melbourne.Īs we glide past the Footscray Community Arts Centre, a former piggery, Peter recounts the glory days when this part of the river was a bustling dock. Combining scenery, stories and dry humour with a keen knowledge of the west’s industrial past, his cruises offer a unique look at both the river and the area’s rich heritage. Most don’t realise what we have here in the West.”Ī history buff and nature lover, for 35 years Peter has run tours of the Maribyrnong on his traditional 1920s passenger ferry. “They travel over it many times a year, heading off to other places. “People tend to overlook the Maribyrnong,” he says. As the Blackbird chugs out into the greenish waters of the Maribyrnong River, Captain Peter Somerville glances up at the cars crossing the river on nearby Dynon Road.
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