To date, a significant proportion of existing literature and broader environmental discourse has focused specifically on the beneficial attributes of 'green space', with the restorative role of natural and human-made blue spaces remaining comparatively underexamined . This website therefore seeks to help fill that gap by providing an accessible and informative community resource that platforms the importance of blue space interaction.

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This project is also borne from my deeply personal and lifelong relationship with blue space environments. Having spent the formative years of my childhood living in the Blue Mountains and on the South Coast in NSW, I've been lucky enough to grow up and witness the intrinsic connection that can exist between people, water and place, and understand how vital this symbiotic relationship is for both ecological health and human wellbeing. After neglecting this relationship somewhat in my later adolescence, I’ve spent the past few years consciously rebuilding that connection after realising just how central blue spaces are to my own sense of balance and mental wellbeing. 

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​​Whilst you take the time to explore what I have been able to put together over the course of this semester, I also implore you to reflect on your own relationships with blue space, whatever they are and wherever you may be. ​