Shore Line letters.

You are invited to write a letter to the river. By writing messages we are collectively coming together as a community around Yerta BultI/ Port Adelaide Shore Lines.

Love the PAE and happy to enjoy the night

Love the shore and people around PAR

Listen to the wind blow, watch the sunrise

Flow dearest river, in and out, your breath, my breath.

fish

All the Creatures

Dear water,
Thank you for welcoming us into your waters. It’s great to be here

Hi Port River,

My Dad made plans to live in his boat on your waters but he never got the chance. I hope his soul found peace by the river in the end. I think of him when I walk the paths around you and pretend he is relaxing in one of the moored boats.

Our happy place. So close to home. A hidden gem. Not many people know. Boating and floating and dolphin spotting. When is it time to go?
Janet

Dear Water, 

Take me

Ryan

Dear Yerta Builti,

we grew a city on your edges without asking, and cleared your mangroves before we understood their worth. We're trying, slowly, to give some back, hold on for us.

Alice

Into each other’s lives we flow

Dear Water,

You are life flow, you restore and you quench and you gurglingly joyous

Cheers

Graig  

(Dear water)
Last night I could sense you coming.
The heady oils and geosmin were carried by the wind into my nasal passages and (finally) it was a matter of not if, but when.
Did you know that humans can smell the earth opening up to rain better than sharks can smell blood?
We forget that we are attuned… human, humus, of the earth.
But feel free to make it even shorter! X H

Dear water, thank you for everything you've done for me and mine from the moment of heartbeat until I join you in the ether, you are Earth's miracle  I love you, I praise your preciousness. VJ

Dear Water, 

We know you are essential to life, but it is how you connect the land to itself, and people to the land and each other, that shows us your unique essence

Love Nadine

I offer you a promise to look deeper, listen closer, and tread gently. For in understanding I hope to find the deep roots of care, find the essence of connection

sink
freeze 

float

drip trickle melt 

flow pour crash

spray
soak
splash

love from Fran  

Dear Water,

My longest, my most gentle yet ferocious companion. Life’s delight from raindrops on roses and tadpoles filled puddles to the most powerful of all conquering force.  I revere your plummy depths. You are life in motion. You are life giving and life affirming. You are Flow

Yours in water
Jill

Dear water:,

You are not a resource and should never be treated as a commodity - Danni