Cremorne Point wharf

I drove into the city yesterday morning to run a training course at a company on Garden Island, which is mainly a naval base and where the Queen Mary II docked in February - an interesting place that juts out into the harbour and has some good views across to the city, although the offices smelt damp since they'd had a lot of water damage from the storms at the weekend.

On the way home I detoured to Cremorne Point to see the ferry wharf, which had sunk into the harbour last Saturday due to the rough weather on the harbour. This is our usual ferry stop when we go to the city and it looks like it will be out of action for some time. The main platform sticks out into the harbour and is surrounded by large wooden posts driven into the harbour floor.

As a result of the rough weather, the platform must have been damaged which led to it sinking. It was raining hard again yesterday after a bright start so I didn't stop for long, but there was a large construction barge moored alongside the wharf and so work is underway to either retrieve the old platform or put a new one in place.

This is a photo of the wharf that we took during the summer:


And this is a picture from the Sydney Morning Herald:

This will cause some disruption for the regular users of the ferry here, and we'll have to find another place to catch the ferry when we next go to the city (or just catch the bus, but it's not as scenic!).