Awesome Adelaide – Page 41 of 49 – A photoblog of Adelaide's abandoned buildings, underground tunnels and places to explore. Urban exploration (urbex), off-limits, spelunking, drains, derelict buildings & ruins.

November 23, 2013

Urban Exploring: St Peters Twins [Square Entrance]

The great thing about the St Peters Twins tunnel is at the end of one you can turn around and go back down the other…

One of the nice surprises of the St Peters Twins Square Entrance is an offshoot. This offshoot branch leads to a very old stormwater collection trench that has since been enclosed. It runs parallel to one of Adelaide’s major arterial roads for approximately 500m. The floors and walls are lined with old slate rocks and services literally breach the side walls. It’s a dead-end of course but fun none the less…

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November 23, 2013

Urban Exploring: St Peters Twins [The Round Entrance]

The St Peters Twins tunnel is a twin tunnel system that runs parallel with each other and exits at the same location. Both entrances run for ~1.3kms. The right circular side only stays cylindrical for a while then turns box-shaped till the end.

You can then go down the other side into the Square Enterance.

The cops are hot on graffiti in the area so be careful. We were questioned by 2 officers before discretely disappearing down the hole for another awesome tunneling adventure…

November 20, 2013

Urban Exploring: Cheltenham Racecourse

On Saturday 21 February 2009 the last race meeting was held at the Cheltenham Racecourse before its official closure. The racecourse was the site of Australia’s first forays into aviation, a training camp and convalescent hospital for returned soldiers, as well as many important horse-racing milestones; first broadcast race call, first photo-finish, and the champion Tulloch’s 1961 race at Cheltenham made him the first horse in the Commonwealth to take his earnings past 100,000 pounds.

As developers, state and local government squabble over its heritage significance, the site lays disused and in ruin, waiting for its fate to be decided.