Updated September 2023: HMAS Adelaide's bow which can be seen between two of the three huge metal balls which sit in the park near the Jackson's Landing residential development.

The balls occupy the site of what was once a CSR (originally Colonial Sugar Refinery) plant. I've had some difficulty tracking down exactly what the balls were used for, but at this stage it appears that they were used at CSR's Canite factory. Maybe.

Its what? Canite is a multi-purpose, low density fibre board. Wait, what? What was it doing being manufactured at a sugar plant? Apparently the board is made by pulverising sugar cane fibres with balls such as these. The activity must have been lucrative for these days they're out of the sugar business entirely. Their July 2010 annual report notes an agreement to sell that business (then called Sucrogen) to a regional Asian agribusiness called Wilmar International for A$1.75 billion. That would happen a bit more than a year after this shot was taken, and apparently took effect in 2011 based on the 2023 CSR annual report.

Adelaide would finally be hauled away to become a dive wreck on 13 April 2011, so she had another 2 years or so in which to appear in my galleries. (And indeed, she did. Many times.)