I really could not call this image anything else.

For years I’d driven up and down and around this north-south spit of land north of Port Adelaide and not realised how thin a strip of land the Lefevre Peninsula really is.

You’d think looking at Google maps or some other schematic description of the lay of this land would have given a sense of it but no, not even them.

It took the combination of two things, my daily commute and eye in the sky, to put it all into perspective and finally get a sense of this industrial transitioning to residential landscape.

To the left we have the Adelaide Submarine Corps, to the right the Pelican Point power station. With the stark white of the Viterra grain silos and the giraffe-like cranes of Outer Harbour, the row of Norfolk Island Pines on the western shoreline stand as sentinels of residential life.

This is indeed a dynamic, interesting and industrially beautiful part of Adelaide.