Wharf

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Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 4s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The wharf at Balls Head Bay, Waverton, where MV Cape Don is berthed. Brett Patman describes it as the most unstable structure he has ever walked on. The vessel has been moored at the former Coal Loader Complex, NSW State Heritage listed since 2021, since around 1998.

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Wharf at MV Cape Don, a rickety old wharf that was a test of nerves just to get to this point.Wharf at MV Cape Don, a rickety old wharf that was a test of nerves just to get to this point.Wharf at MV Cape Don, a rickety old wharf that was a test of nerves just to get to this point.Wharf at MV Cape Don, a rickety old wharf that was a test of nerves just to get to this point.Wharf at MV Cape Don, a rickety old wharf that was a test of nerves just to get to this point.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Wharf
Series
MV Cape Don
Catalogue
MCD-016
Process
Giclée
Captured
30 January 2016
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
4s s
ISO
100
Focal length
14 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Balls Head, New South Wales, Australia
Recognised by
Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
02 LOCATION

Balls Head, New South Wales, Australia

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04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A rickety old wharf that was a test of nerves just to get to this point.

Brett Patman

MV Cape Don

The series

MV Cape Don

2015 · 18 photographs

MV *Cape Don* is a former Commonwealth Lighthouse Service tender, designed by the Australian Shipping Board and built at the State Dockyard in Newcastle. She was launched on 28 May 1962, commissioned in 1964, and worked the Australian coast until 1990, servicing lighthouses, lightships, and buoys across more than a quarter of a century. Her sister ships were *Cape Moreton* and *Cape Pillar*. Her log includes the 1973 recovery of two of HMS *Investigator*'s anchors from the Recherche Archipelago and the 1979 establishment of the first marine monitoring station in Bass Strait. Decommissioned in 1990, she is now moored at Berry's Bay, Waverton, where the Sea Heritage Foundation is restoring her as a museum and training ship.

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