I was lucky enough to be part of a camera club visit to the harbour mouth area on a number of occasions during the harbour widening project. The pictures in this album were taken on 25 August 2007.
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On the harbour side of the southern breakwater. The diagoonal stripe of black rock is the remains of Milne's original south breakwater. |
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Part of the harbour defenses on the harbour side of the southern breakwater. |
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Crane on southern breakwater. |
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Millenium Tower |
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Walkway to ??pumping station?? which was located on the harbour side of the southern breakwater. |
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Part of the harbour defenses on the harbour side of the southern breakwater. |
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Part of the harbour defenses on the harbour side of the southern breakwater. |
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Concrete dolosse which were used to armour the southern breakwater. The dark metal shape in front is the form which was used to mould the dolosse. |
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Diamond Beach at the tip of the Bluff. The breakwater went out to the left and behind me. |
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Close-up of the old dolosse. A South African invention, apparently, which interlock very effectively. They are massive but people working at the harbour have reported them being broken by ver heavy surf. |
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Looking down the southern breakwater. |
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Looking down the southern breakwater. |
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The wall on top of the southern breakwater, reinforced with dolosse. |
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The dredger Marieke hard at work off the southern breakwater. |
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Breaking up the wall on the southern breakwater to prepare for the building of the new and much higher breakwater. |
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An old ??jetty?? on the seaward side of the the end of the Bluff. |
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The southern breakwater crane. |
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Looking from the seaward side of the end of the Bluff (Diamond Beach) looking towards the southern breakwater. |
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One of the diamond-shaped navigation aids which gave diamond beacj its name; the tip of the Bluff headland in the background. |
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The southern breakwater crane. |
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The dredger Marieke, in the harbour this time. |
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A barge-mounted backhoe digger which was part of theproject and moored near the NSRI building. |