Elizabeth Quay
Waterfront promenade around a reflooded river inlet, ringed by restaurants, bars and a rooftop lookout.
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This guide to Elizabeth Quay in Perth traces the ground beneath the waterfront restaurants back to Gumap, the Noongar fishing site where families once lit fires on the riverbank to catch fish after dark. It follows the reclamation that buried this bend of the Swan River under a road for more than a century, and the twenty sixteen excavation that let the river back in. You will hear how food and water have been tied to this exact spot for far longer than any restaurant has stood here.
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