This cache container has been in place since January 2010 . However at that time there was another cache in close proximity so it was not able to be published.
Ground zero will bring you to an old part of Port Adelaide history and the information has mainly gleaned from a wonderful book named
Port Adelaide
Tales from a "Commodius Harbour"
Author John Couper-Smart published 2003.
In 1879 work began to extend the Company Basin to create what was known as the Port Adelaide Company Dock or The New Dock. This project was undertaken by the privately financed Port Adelaide Dock Company and involved hundreds of labourers who excavated the dock by shovel to a depth of six metres. The spoil was used to build up the surrounds of the dock as well as the eastward extension of St Vincent Street. Along its southern embankment it became Santo Parade and formed the foundation for the grand commercial buildings - and the equally grand Colac Hotel-built there in the 1880s. This canal allowed the wool to be rolled directly onto the clippers. It is hard to determine when this canal was refilled but the same book talks of two bridges over the dock being "in a derelict state and with both removed in 1935.