Once the water of the Yarra was locked in the mountains. This great expanse of water was so large that the Woiwurong had little hunting ground. Mo-yarra, slow-and-fast-running, was the headman of the Woiwurong. He decided to free the country of the water. So he cut a channel through the hills. However only a little water followed him. At a later time the new headman of the tribe, Bar-wool, resolved again to free the land. He cut a channel up the valley with his stone axe. In Warr-an-dyte he met Yan-yan, another Woiwurong, who was busily engaged in cutting a channel for the Plenty River in order to drain Morang. They joined forces, and the waters of Moorool and Morang became Moo-rool-bark, the Place-where-the-wide-waters-were. They had to go much slower now because the ground was much harder. They were also using up too many stone axes. At last they reached Port Phillip and the waters of Moorool and Morang rushed out. The country of the Woiwurrong was freed from water but Port Phillip was inundated.
Indigenous legend of the Yarra valley
