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| Barrenjoey lighthouse |
On
the southern headland of the entrance to Pittwater and Broken Bay is
a lighthouse with the wonderful name Barrenjoey. The water under the
headland is too shallow to get the big boat in so we left Jackster on
a mooring ball at Palm Beach half a mile south and buzzed up in the
dinghy to take the short walk to the top. The path has an
interesting history; five convicts were given the work detail to
construct a winding path up the escarpment, cutting steps and
clearing rocks where necessary to provide a footpath to the light
house at the summit. Before the footpath there was a cobbled track
for horse and cart but the powers that were wanted a footpath too.
It's a testament to the constructors grit with steps cut in solid
rock and in other places square cut blocks making the steps.
At
the top there's a sandstone lighthouse, not the original, and two
original buildings, neither occupied at the moment. In the whale
migration season it's a popular viewing spot. The sperm whales are
due to pass again in a couple of months when they migrate from the
Antarctic up into the tropical Pacific to calve and breed.
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