Budj Bim interps trail wins government funding

The Convincing Ground massacre site of 1834: the stumps of the old whaling station jetty are still visible.

A trail that will begin by commemorating the fallen at the Convincing Ground in Portland – arguably Victoria's first Indigenous major massacre site – has won $8million in funding from the Victorian Government in the 2016 state budget.

Led by David Huxtable from interps firm LookEar, the trail is to be known as the Budj Bim Way. It will head from the Convincing Ground for 40 kilometres to Lake Surprise, taking in the Gunditjmara's cultural heritage from complex eel trap systems and the ruins of their villages of domed housing to explanations of  place-based creation stories.  

The team, who collaborated with  the Gunditjmara, consisted of Hamilton firm Cooper Scaife Architects, graphic designer Mono Design, with Gib Wettenhall as writer.