The attachment people have to attachment to places with water.

1. Places for Recreation
A Mallee case study of Walpeup Lake
Grasping the intangible at heritage places
ICOMOS Symposium Melbourne
18 October 2014

2. Museum of Victoria MM7687

4. Children, picnic teas, swimming and boating all happened here. Neighbours
met each other and had time to talk, children could play with friends and cool
off in the long summer evenings.

5. Museum of Victoria MM7629
Water in the Mallee (or the lack of it) is a driving force in shaping the region,
but this was different. This was about a particular type of water, open water,
recreational water.

6. No-one realized how important it was until it was gone, and the lake and the
channels were dry.

7. 'Don’t get me wrong, the pipeline is a wonderful thing for our economic growth, but
from a lifestyle point of view, we’ve probably gone backwards,'
Simon Grigg on Off Track , Radio National

8. People still remember those channels and they lead straight back to
Walpeup Lake.

9. We see boats, we see a little caravan park perhaps, we see cabins, we see
tents, we see camping sites, we see barbeques, we see lawn areas, we see just
a wonderful social environment for the whole community.’
Simon Grigg, Off Track on Radio National

10. It isn’t actually there. Yet.

11. Louise Honman
Context Pty Ltd
louise.honman@contextpl.com.au
www.contextpl.com.au