A huge raft of water weed was sailing down the centre of the channel.
Rushes are thick water weeds, rush cutters were the workers who cut them.
They're good for the basket willow as well as bringing the water weed.
It was also cancelled in 2011 due to an unusually prolific growth of water weed.
Many fleeing people drowned in a canal which was covered by hyacinth (a common water weed).
Only the shore grasses and the water weeds were green and moving.
They eat a broad range of small aquatic creatures, and supplement this with water weeds.
Turrella is an aboriginal word for reedy place or water weeds.
Their beaks are often flat for scooping up water weeds.
"Scoop up those water weeds and dump them on the shore."