Southern Trip Day 10 - Jervis Bay

This morning after breakfast and after the kids went to school, Scott took Shan, Finn and I for a drive out to the Booderee National Park and went to check out the 'Old' Lighthouse.  The national park is actually part of the ACT even though it is whack bang on the South Coast of NSW.  Reason being is because of the Naval base which is situated there.

You see every other Capital City has a 'port' which clearly wouldn't work for ACT itself (as its land locked), so it has been deemed ACT for port purposes.

So enough babble about that.....

The 'Old' Lighthouse was apparently built in the wrong spot after much deliberation.  Even though the lighthouse was built still ships continued to crash.  It was then decided that a lighthouse on the other side of Jervis Bay, at Point Perpendicular, would be a better location.

On the way up to the old lighthouse there is a photo which shows the area in its heyday, which was really trippy.

There was also a sign which advised of the many grim misadventures of the people who occupied the area.  For instance a lighthouse keeper was kicked by a horse and perished, a guy was shark fishing and ended up being eaten by one, just to name a couple!

We were wondering why historians would let the lighthouse end up so dilapidated, and not try to restore it.  It wasn't until we were walking back down and re-read the sign we saw that once the new lighthouse was erected, the old lighthouse still distracted ships so they decided to use explosives to reduce the size of it, causing it to be the rubble it is today.

It was really interesting.  Oh we also saw whales cruising past which was cool.

After the lighthouse we went to Murray's Beach which was really pretty.

After Murray's beach we went to Hyams Beach which boasts the 'whitest' sand in the world!

When we came home Scott started to prepare our dinner..........Paella!  Talk about a work of art, and it was delicious!

Tomorrow we are catching up with Shan's Sister, and the boys, then the rest of the Hatton clan are coming over for pizza around the fire!

Till tomorrow.......

Wanderin Watson's