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April 2007

As the wet season fades to the occasional shower, the excavation for the first of the Toga Group's projects had some final trimming ready for handover. Wharf One will be a mixed use development with 138 luxury apartments located above dining, retail and commercial areas. Three interconnected buildings, of up to ten levels, will stretch from Kitchener Drive and out over the water's edge of the new marina.



Now that some of the trimming channels have been bolted into place, the Convention Centre roofline is really coming into shape. The expanded image shows workers fitting some of the hundreds of purlins needed to give the roof its distinctive pearl shell shape. As long as we don't get a repeat of last year's cyclone, further construction on the roof should match the rapid progress of services inside the building.

The thumbnail shot left, taken on the morning of April 19, shows just how close that day's abnormally high tide came to the top of the completed seawall earthworks. When completed, the wave wall will raise the finished level well above the reach of the tide but, as the expanded image shows, it's not completed yet, and an anxious crowd gathered to chew their fingernails 'til the tide turned! You can see from the legs that the dirt is lower than the rocks :-)



Work on the wave pool is progressing well, and divers recently started hooking the intake pipes for the pool onto the pump structure located on Stokes Hill Wharf. In the thumbnail you can see one of the divers wrestling with an intake pipe, and in the centre right of the expanded image you will see his support crew, as well as two work boats; the three black pump pipes are rising in front of the support crew.