Graceful paperbarks overhang the Patawalonga Creek, with samphires in the foreground. Prior to 1937 the River Torrens did not flow directly into Gulf St. Vincent - its waters entered the myriad of creeks and lagoons of the ‘Reedbeds’, and the floodwater overflows made their way out to sea via the Patawalonga Creek to the south, or via the Port River to the north.