Video: Abandoned SS Ayrfield: Ship - Floating Forest (Sydney, Australia)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Everything in life is cyclical, and sometimes it happens that the death of one person becomes the birth of something new. So it happened with the British steam by SS Ayrfield, which has stood abandoned off the coast of the Olympic Village in Sydney for many years, and its rusty hull has turned into real mangroves during this time. The second name of the ship is "The Floating Forest"which literally means "Floating forest".
The ship was built in Britain in 1911 and was used by the Australian government to transport supplies to American troops stationed in the Pacific during World War II. It was sold in 1950 and used to transport coal from Newcastle to Sydney until the decision was made in 1972 to ship it to Homebush Bay, where it is still located.
It is noteworthy that before the Olympic Games in 2000, shipwrecks occurred regularly in the bay; this place was even called a ship graveyard. Despite this, SS Ayrfield is still afloat, over the years, mangroves have grown on it, forming real thickets. Of course, the "Floating Forest" is especially beautiful at sunset, photographers from all over the world come to Sydney to capture a unique testimony of how nature transforms everything that man has created, but could not completely transform.
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