Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
BAD RIVER - The Cooks River: Australia's sickest urban river is located in the glamorous and famously pretty city of Sydney. This makes sense, given it’s also Australia's largest, hard-surfaced, drainified, leaky-sewered, city. In my little red kayak I decided to trace all 23km of the Cooks River, inspired to do so after paddling my boyhood river over 4 days in the name of Backyard Adventuring. Finding it not only challenging, but shocking in terms of its ill health, I’ve since shifted from wanting to see the wildest and most pristine places on earth, to the most degraded and sick. This is a journey of ill-health, sadness and hope; putting a test to the local saying, ‘if you fall in, you’ll dissolve’.
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BAD RIVER: THE COOKS RIVER
Produced and Directed by
BEAU MILES
Produced and Edited by
@mitchdrummond
Producer
JODI EVANS
Filmed by
MITCH DRUMMOND
CHRIS ORD
BRETT CAMPBELL
& BEAU MILES
Final Sound Mix by
JAMES DOBSON
Maps and Colour
BRETT CAMPBELL
Scrip Support
CHRIS ORD
Supported by Screen Australia
And YouTube through the
Skip Ahead initiative
BAD RIVER - The Cooks River: Australia's sickest urban river is located in the glamorous and famously pretty city of Sydney. This makes sense, given it’s also Australia's largest, hard-surfaced, drainified, leaky-sewered, city. In my little red kayak I decided to trace all 23km of the Cooks River, inspired to do so after paddling my boyhood river over 4 days in the name of Backyard Adventuring. Finding it not only challenging, but shocking in terms of its ill health, I’ve since shifted from wanting to see the wildest and most pristine places on earth, to the most degraded and sick. This is a journey of ill-health, sadness and hope; putting a test to the local saying, ‘if you fall in, you’ll dissolve’.
For all the latest on tours, Patreon, books and other Beauisms - https://linktr.ee/beauisms
BAD RIVER: THE COOKS RIVER
Produced and Directed by
BEAU MILES
Produced and Edited by
@mitchdrummond
Producer
JODI EVANS
Filmed by
MITCH DRUMMOND
CHRIS ORD
BRETT CAMPBELL
& BEAU MILES
Final Sound Mix by
JAMES DOBSON
Maps and Colour
BRETT CAMPBELL
Scrip Support
CHRIS ORD
Supported by Screen Australia
And YouTube through the
Skip Ahead initiative
