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Green Cape Lighthouse is located in Ben Boyd National Park and is the southernmost lighthouse in New South Wales. The lighthouse was designed by colonial architect James Barnett and built in 1883. It stands 29 metre high on the tip of Green Cape.
The presence of the lighthouse could not prevent the SS Ly-ee-moon shipwrecking on the nearby reef in 1886; 15 people were saved by the lighthouse keeper, 71 people lost their lives.
In recent year the tower has been replaced by an automatic steel lattice skeleton tower with a solar powered light.
On the photo below you can see the modern lighthouse and its surrounding reflected in the immense lens of the original lighthouse.
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You can rent the lighthouse assistant keeper’s cottage for the night or a couple of days. It makes very nice (self-contained) accommodation. From there you can take a tour and climb the old lighthouse, as well as explore the surrounding national park. For more information on the cottage or the national park contact National Parks and Wildlife Services.
Categories: Australia · Photos · Travel · lighthouse
Tagged: Australia, Ben Boyd National Park, Ben Boyd NP, Coast, Coastal, Eden, Green Cape, Green Cape Lighthouse, Lens, New South Wales, NSW, Pacific Ocean, South Coast
Coolah Tops National Park in New South Wales, Australia is a magic place.
This not so well known park is situated where the Warrumbungle Range meets the Great Dividing Range and has beautiful lookouts, pretty waterfalls, heaps of wildlife and last, but not least, the amazing Grasstree forest.
The park lies east of the sleepy country town of Coolah.
Our thanks go to Peter Smith who used to run the Barringun Roadhouse (anybody knows where to find him?) and took us there very early in 1995 when it was still a state forest; this was our very first ‘Australian bush’ experience and started the ball rolling …
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We spent last Christmas camping there among the Kangaroos and had a great time!
Categories: Australia · Kangaroo · Photos · Travel
Tagged: Animal, Animals, Australia, Coolah Tops National Park, Eastern Grey Kangaroo, Fauna, Macropus giganteus, Marsupial, Native, New South Wales, NSW, Wild life, Wildlife
Trilby Station is located on the Darling River near Louth, south of Bourke, New South Wales.
It has always been a hard life trying to make a living of the land in this area, the more so in the last years with one of the the worst droughts ever experienced since white man came to Australia.
Trilby is still a working sheep station, but as an other source of income has opened its doors to travellers. It offers a range of accommodation, the best option (at least to us and by far) camping on the Darling River and watching the bird life.
If you are there at the right time you can pop in and see the School of the Air, operated from Broken Hill, life in action (if the kids haven’t grown too old by now and if Satellite Broadband hasn’t caught up with the whole thing).
There are interesting self-drive tours to do at Trilby and neighbouring Dunlop Stations. A lot of relics from the past can be found, such as abandoned homesteads, plant, cars and … the odd double-decker.
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The folks at Trilby call this the Old London Bus. It is supposed to have been the mobile residence of a sheep shearer that worked on the station some time ago, but it was left behind when its time had come. But … watch it … as was pointed out by specialists, it has never had a life in London. It is actually an old Sydney Bus, although it may also have driven the streets of Newcastle (NSW it is, not the UK).
Anyway, we hope it is happy now …
Categories: Australia · Outback · Photos · Travel
Tagged: Abandoned, Australia, Bus, Double decker, Louth, New South Wales, NSW, Old London Bus, Old Sydney Bus, Outback, Remote, Transport, Travel, Trilby Station
The Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby (scientific name: Petrogale penicillata) is one of the inhabitants on the Great Dividing Range of Australia. It is very agile and lacks any fear of heights, living on steep cliffs.
A good spot to look for them is Chaelundi Bluff (or Lucifer’s Thumb) in Guy Fawkes River National Park in New South Wales Australia. That is were the fellow below was photographed.
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Categories: Australia · Photos · Travel
Tagged: 2005, Animal, Animals, Australia, Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby, Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia, CERRA, Chaelundi Bluff, Fauna, Guy Fawkes River National Park, Guy Fawkes River NP, Lucifers Thumb, Mammal, Marsupial, Nature, New South Wales, NSW, Petrogale penicillata, Wild life, Wildlife, World Heritage Area
Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of Sydney’s famous landmarks (if not the most famous).
The bridge was opened in 1932 and, although nowadays there is a tunnel underneath the harbour as well, is still an essential artery feeding traffic in and out of Sydney with over 160.000 vehicles crossing each day.
You can climb the South Eastern pylon and the views from there are spectacular, see photo below.
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Categories: Australia · Photos · Travel
Tagged: Australia, New South Wales, NSW, Photos, Sydney, Sydney Harbour, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Travel
