Breakfast Creek

Rising as the Enoggera Creek that drains the D'Aguilar Range in the D'Aguilar National Park, Breakfast Creek forms near {{QLDcity|Herston}} where it flows a short meandering course of {{convert|2|km}} before reaching its confluence with the Brisbane River at Newstead, next to Newstead Park. Travelling up the Brisbane River, the creek is the first to join the river on its northern banks.

The heritage-listed Breakfast Creek Hotel is located near the confluence with the Brisbane River and is known for serving XXXX beer exclusively from wooden barrels.{{Cite web|url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/breakfast-creek-hotel-celebrates-125-years-20140513-zrbpj.html|title=Breakfast Creek Hotel celebrates 125 years|date=14 May 2014 |access-date=19 January 2017}} Also here the Breakfast Creek Green Bridge is under construction.

The shorter race in the annual Bridge to Brisbane fun run starts at the Breakfast Creek bridge.

John Oxley and Allan Cunningham met members of an Aboriginal clan at the mouth of the creek in 1824. After they had breakfast at the site, minor conflict with the clan arose after one of them grabbed Oxley's hat. Oxley named the waterway in remembrance of the incident.

An important Aboriginal camping ground occupied the Breakfast Creek / {{QLDcity|Hamilton}} area until it was broken up by police raids in the 1860s. The camp was one of the major sources from which local Aboriginal people supplied the Moreton Bay colony with fish. It was also where Aboriginal leader Dalaipi spoke his famous "Indictments" which were published in the Moreton Bay Courier in 1858.{{citation needed|date=February 2012}}

One of the white first settlers on the creek was Patrick Leslie who, in 1845, built the still-standing Newstead House. Brisbane's Cantonese community, who had established businesses in Fortitude Valley and built the Temple of the Holy Triad in 1886, settled in the flats around Breakfast Creek and Eagle Farm.{{cite book |title=Brisbane Then and Now |last=Gregory |first=Helen |year=2007 |publisher=Salamander Books |location=Wingfield, South Australia |isbn=978-1-74173-011-1 |pages=98 }} During dry times in the early colony of Moreton Bay, when water from the Roma Street reservoir was depleted, supplies were carted from Breakfast Creek.{{cite book |title=The Making of a Metropolis: Brisbane 1823—1925 |last=Laverty |first=John |year=2009 |publisher=Boolarong Press |location=Salisbury, Queensland |isbn=978-0-9751793-5-2 |page=23 }}

Various streets close to Breakfast Creek were affected by Brisbane floods in 1893, 1974 and in 2011.

The first bridge across the creek was built in 1836.{{Cite web |date=2009-06-24 |title=Newstead |url=https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/newstead |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=State Library Of Queensland |language=en}} A number of floods destroyed early bridges across the creek. The first permanent bridge was built in 1858 using ironbark.{{cite web |url=http://queenslandplaces.com.au/breakfast-creek |title=Breakfast Creek |access-date=1 January 2010 |work=Queensland Places |publisher=Centre for the Government of Queensland }} As the timber of the bridge eroded, a second metal bridge was built in 1889. As traffic levels over the bridge increased, it became necessary to build a third larger concrete bridge in 1958, which stands {{as of|2017|lc=y}}.{{cite web|author=the foto fanatic |title=Breakfast Creek Bridge|url=http://www.yourbrisbanepastandpresent.com/2009/11/breakfast-creek-bridge.html |work=Your Brisbane: Past and Present|publisher=Blogger |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100104073320/http://www.yourbrisbanepastandpresent.com/2009/11/breakfast-creek-bridge.html |archive-date=4 January 2010|access-date=31 January 2014}}

Remnants of the second bridge can still be seen and are listed on the Brisbane Heritage Register.{{cite BrisbaneHR|32|Remnants of the 2nd Breakfast Creek Bridge (North)|accessdate=16 February 2014}}

A new rail bridge as part of Cross River Rail is due for operation by 2025.{{cite AV media |people=Ben Propert |date=20 September 2021 |title=Around the Sites - July - September 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOmMpqR-Nrg&t=63s |access-date=23 October 2021 |publisher=Cross River Rail }}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}}

File:Breakfast Creek Hotel.JPG|The Breakfast Creek Hotel

File:StateLibQld 1 109132 Flood waters at the Breakfast Creek Hotel, Brisbane, 1893.jpg|Flood waters at the Breakfast Creek Hotel, Brisbane, 1893

File:StateLibQld 1 239501 Bridge across Breakfast Creek, Brisbane.jpg|The 1858 ironbark bridge across Breakfast Creek, circa 1875

File:StateLibQld 1 104548 Breakfast Creek Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, ca. 1889.jpg|The 1889 metal bridge, circa 1889

File:Breakfast Creek Bridge.JPG|The 1958 concrete bridge

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• {{Section link|List of rivers of Australia|Queensland}}

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• [http://queenslandplaces.com.au/breakfast-creek University of Queensland: Queensland Places: Breakfast Creek]
• [https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/61SLQ_INST/1dejkfd/alma99232173402061 Breakfast Creek Rowing Club notebook 1885-1894], State Library of Queensland

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