Image 24: Kangaroo Point
Brisbane Botanic Gardens from Parliament House
"The flood waters in places reached the path leading from the George street entrance, and completely covered the whole of the lower portion and perhaps three fourths of the ground. The water extended in one sheet from the bank above the fountain, near the George Street entrance, to the river. The upper part of the gardens evidently experienced the full force of the current.
Here large holes have been torn in some parts of the ground, while in others banks of sand have accumulated. The propagating-house has withstood the flood, being comparatively out of the track of the current, though unfortunately the plants cannot but be almost totally destroyed. Towards Garden Point a great amount of devastation has been done. The water rose to some height on the kiosk, and must have surrounded the bottom of the aviary near at hand. The upper portion of the bush house escaped, but the lower portion is considerably damaged. A brick building containing a large number of valuable pot-plants have been partially shifted, and the plants and pots swept to the ground, so that a large proportion, if not all, are now useless." ...
Extract from the Brisbane Courier, 7 February 1893.
