by | | Charles Grimes - survey of Port Phillip
Board 17: Dight’s Falls On February 8th the group sailed up the Yarra for awhile and reached Dights Falls. This was the furthest they sailed. There is a plaque to commemorate this act in a fairly inaccessible place. We reached the spot by entering several back...
by | | Charles Grimes - survey of Port Phillip
Board 16: Avondale Heights Plaque The exploration is described with daily entries in Flemmings’ Journal. Footnotes at the back of the Journal identify places numbered in the text. It has been estimated that the group went a certain way up the Maribyrnong River and...
by | | Charles Grimes - survey of Port Phillip
Board 15: The Obelisk At the time of the Grimes survey in 1803 the structure of Melbourne’s Rivers, The Yarra and the Maribyrnong were different than they are now. The original flow of the Yarra River entered the Maribyrnong River opposite Parker Street, Footscray....
by | | Charles Grimes - survey of Port Phillip
Board 14: George Seelaf – Boat Design The Grimes re-enactment was possible because there was a replica of the boat that the Grimes party used to explore the Maribyrnong and Yarra Rivers. The boat was a 13 foot Clinker, a common design of that era. The designs for the...
by | | Charles Grimes - survey of Port Phillip
Board 13: News Articles A number of news articles about the re-enactment in 2003, published in local papers,are available to download here (pdf 1.3 MB) Download Now
by | | Charles Grimes - survey of Port Phillip
Board 12: Port Phillip Survey Map In 1802 the third governor of New South Wales, Governor King, sent the Surveyor General of New South Wales, Charles Grimes to explore King Island, Western Port, and Port Phillip, then the southern parts of the colony of New South...
