Aqueduct

This is really a beautiful piece of concrete architecture set in a heavily contested landscape. The foreground is infill and although nothing ever seems to be happening here, it's being prepared for building; presumably warehouses of some kind.

Weeds (I think) colonising the waste ground / service roads. This area was once contiguous with, and presumably substantially the same as the Connewarra wetlands. But being at the back of Leather and Tanner streets hasn't bought it much respect over the years. There's plenty of signs of earlier dumped waste soil; now better regulated perhaps.

It's possible some of these are actually indigenous plants (there's samphire, for example, which might exist in a local variety) - but there were at least three varieties of thistle, and plenty of  that side-of-the-road grass.

 The Barwon looking serene; cold wind though. Signs warn against bathing under the structure - pieces might fall off.

 OK, so these are indigenous plants; these are two (the foreground is sedge, the background I think lignum) of the three main plants around Lake Reedy.

Mind you, there's been a lot of engineering down river on the Barwon to keep the salt water out - so really, even Lake Reedy is not pre-European & so unless these are salt tolerant they might be considered weeds as well.

 The full length of the aqueduct itself is protected by barbed wire fences, pretty well maintained. The concrete is starting to wear off - you can see the interior rebar in quite a few places.  Worth preserving in my view.

 I can't really believe they are still pumping stuff through the pipe in that aqueduct; this is much more modern and I assume it's part of the replacement system. Whenever I see buildings like this, I'm reminded of the final scene in Angelheart - Mickey Rourke going to hell in a lift, endlessly down...

It's probably just a pump though,

 Solid

but beautiful.