Cabbage Tree Creek borders Fitzgibbon on two sides. The main branch of Cabbage Tree Creek/Tighgum is Fitzgibbon’s eastern boundary. The Carseldine Channel runs along the northern boundary and merges with the main branch of Cabbage Tree Creek between the Sandgate Hawks football fields and the Bill Brown Reserve. Fitzgibbon Tributary runs across the suburb and joins Cabbage Tree Creek behind the Somerset Equestrian Centre.
Along its main branch there is a track extending from Cambridge Crescent near Harvard Court. This track follows the creek to exit near the Somerset Equestrian Centre at Iris Place Park. It is an exceptionally pleasant part of Fitzgibbon.
While typically a gentle stream, the creek floods regularly. On 28 February 2022 police reported “A man has died in floodwaters at Fitzgibbon yesterday afternoon. Around 4.15pm the man came into trouble crossing Cabbage Tree Creek Road on foot.”1 Normally a placid stream, it will break its banks in times of heavy rain, leading to local flooding.
There are walking tracks along the length of the main branch at Fitzgibbon, and the Cabbage Tree Creek bikeway extends 16km upstream to where it commences at Arana Hills, as well as downstream to Shorncliffe.
- Man dies in floodwaters Fitzgibbon, myPolice Brisbane Central, 28 February, 2022. ↩︎