Ballast Point Park

Strolled around this beautiful park this afternoon. It sits at the entrance to western Sydney and the Parramatta River, and is one of the prettiest parks in Sydney, with stunning views.
Until the end of the 20th century it was a very important oil distribution centre for Sydney.
The cylindrical skeleton of a former giant oil tank stands sentinel at the park, which was opened in 2009. Encrypted into the metal through punctured holes are the words of poet Les Murray: 'Stone statues of ancient waves, tongue like dingoes on shore.'
It’s an artistic finial to a harbourside park with more creative feeling than most, designed by landscape architects McGregor Coxall., and comes after a lengthy and bitterly fought battle by residents to stop development on the site and an equally bitter battle by Lang Walker’s Walker Corporation for compensation after he bought an option to develop the site.