Elizabeth Bay Marina - a photo on Flickriver

            The marina is around a little from where a local kayaker was bitten by a shark in January 2024. Sharks in Sydney Harbour this close to shore are rare and although she was experienced, injuries were potentially life threatening. She was saved by quick thinking locals, airlifted to hospital and recovered. 

Renovated in 2018 after the previous century-old marina had fallen into decrepitude, the new marina is 80cm higher to reduce high tide flooding. The Outlook cafe is run by Andrew Carter who previously operated Heritage Coffee Brewers in Summer Hill. Kayak storage stayed at the front, preserving views.

Fortunately, it didn't become the supercruiser marina proposed by previous owners, colourful stockbroker, insider trader and local identity Rene Rivkin and his partner, developer Nati Stoliar, who was imprisoned in Nevada for two years for his part in a fake biofuel credits scheme that netted $US40 million. Later Michael Dalah, a rag trader, acquired the lease from Rivkin and Stoliar for $1 in March 2005 in settlement of a business debt. Presumably he sold in part, as a 2015 court case brought by Peter Fitzhenry claimed documents had been backdated to strip him of his half ownership, shared with his one-time next door neighbour Moses Obeid. A $2.5 million court battle between the Obeid family and the NSW state government over the marina was later settled out of court.

At left, but right of the yellow building 3 Ithaca (obscured by palm trees and a tall privacy wall) is Boomerang, a Spanish Mission-style 25-room mansion built in 1926 for sheet music publisher Frank Albert. It was sold in 2002 by English investor Duncan Mount for $20 million to pre-Raphaelite art collector and Tempo founder John Schaeffer, and then to trucking and retail magnate Lindsay Fox in 2005. Its sale before Christmas 2023 for about $80 million was the most expensive of the year (although still not settled in May 2024!).

The homes at water level are on Billyard Avenue, while those higher up are on Macleay Street, Potts Point. The big white apartment block at left is 81 Macleay, the Ikon building where the Chevron Hilton and Cairo hotels once stood, and the larger red one towards the right is Macleay Regis.

Taken in: Australia / New South Wales / Elizabeth Bay (show map)

Taken on: May 15, 2024

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