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love this shot
I can't quite work out where this is... Somewhere out towards the Port o' Brisbane?
South side of the river on the Western side of a big ship yard. It's a long roundabout walk to get there, but well worth it.
I'll definitely give it a look. FYI, the remaining gasometer in Newstead is close to filled-in now (they're incorporating its frame into the new development), and the rest of the site is just a jigsaw of excavated dirt. The exposed red brick drain that runs through the site is still there, but sections appear to have been replaced with concrete pipe fairly recently. Homesick yet?
All the best stuff in Brisbane is dying, Tennyson, Newstead, West End gasometers... such is life in a booming city. Hmm so they're still working on the drain. They've been fucking with it on and off for the past couple of years. First time I got in was through a giant hole in the street further upstream where they replaced the brick with giant concrete square triplets and a junction room. Funny thing is the third triplet tunnel goes nowhere... upstream OR downstream.
Well, I made it out there earlier this evening, but the boat is gone... Interestingly, though, you can still see it on Google Earth, if you look carefully enough...