The breach in the wall of the Big Dam at Mulligans
Flat. In the early days of Mulligans as a nature reserve, this, the
largest of the old stock dams, would back up
to create an extensive body of tree-studded water and a larger area of boggy
marsh where snipe, sea-eagles, and a family of White-necked Herons could be found.
Some years ago, with the rupture of the wall, the retained puddle became a mere
vestige of the former lakelet. More recently the suburb of Harrison has
appeared in the gap, itself to be eclipsed by the advancing suburb of Throsby.
As Mulligans looks more and more like an island (or even a zoo, some might
think), we can appreciate the great work by COG committees in the late 1980s/early 1990s, in particular Jenny Bounds and Bruce
Lindenmayer, in campaigning for the preservation of this area, the development
of which was then barely contemplated.
