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26-Mar-2009 AKMC

090326_124326_4507 Relics (Thu 26 Mar 09)

Johnston's Bay From Anzac Bridge, Sydney, NSW

Three relics for the price of one. The HMAS Adelaide (see description in the main gallery) awaits her fate of becoming a dive wreck. She sits alongside the old Conaust Car Terminal, which was the disembarkation point for many vehicles brought into Australia from overseas. (This was sometimes known as the White Bay terminal, though technically White Bay is on the other side of the point to the left; the body of water that you're looking at is in fact Johnston's Bay.) However use of the terminal was discontinued in November 2008, leaving the cars that were landed before then to be gradually cleared away.

The old Glebe Island Bridge (which once carried traffic from the city to Rozelle and all points west) remains decaying under a steadily increasing tide of seagull droppings in the foreground. Once a swing bridge which opened to allow vessels to pass through to Blackwattle Bay and Rozelle Bay beyond, it's now permanently open. Its place has been taken by the Anzac Bridge, which can be seen in image 4460 in the Pyrmont-Darling Harbour gallery. (PBase link HERE.)


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