Awesome images of Sydney’s ship graveyard by Toby Zerna using a drone
These amazing photos captured by Daily Telegraph snapper Toby Zerna using a drone show nature taking over old ships and transforming them into island forests in Homebush Bay.
These amazing photos captured by a drone show nature taking over old ships and transforming them into island forests in Homebush Bay.
Just 16km from the CBD, yet unknown to many Sydneysiders, the rusted wrecks are the remains of a ship-breaking yard where once-mighty navy vessels were broken up for scrap metal right up until the 1970s.
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But long abandoned and left for decades for Mother Nature to take its course, the ships have transformed into a haven for birds after mangrove trees sprouted through the hulls.
HMAS Karangi served in Darwin toward the end of WWII, while its neighbour the SS Ayrfield was a coal ship for much of its life but took on US troops in the Pacific during the war years — before both were left to rot in Homebush Bay.
Many ships were stripped, in what was then an industrial backwater where few people lived.
City of Sydney Historical Society’s Betty Candy said that these are not the only wrecks to be found in the area.
“There are heaps of ships there that are below the water line,” she said.
“There’s at least five ships there that I know of.”
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