While it could be said of any number of our lighthouses Gabo Island is truely iconic, not only for it’s architecture and the incredible quality of it’s build, or for it’s rich history but mainly for it’s location, literally at the south east corner of the Australian mainland at the easternmost point of Victoria near […]

Situated at the southernmost point of New South Wales before the coastline curves westward toward Victoria, the imposing tower of Green Cape Lighthouse has served as a crucial navigational beacon along Australia’s treacherous southeastern coastline for almost 150 years. The lighthouse was commissioned and first lit in 1883 following a series of devastating shipwrecks along […]

Perched on the appropriately named Red Point headland overlooking the Twofold Bay, Boyds Tower stands as a witness to colonial ambition, maritime history, and commercial enterprise along Australia’s southeastern coastline. Unlike its fully functional lighthouse neighbours at Green Cape and Montague Island, this distinctive stone tower represents an intriguing historical anomaly; a structure originally conceived […]

Perched atop the gigantic granite boulders that form the backbone of Montague Island the lighthouse has stood watch over the treacherous waters of the Tasman Sea for almost 150 years. The island, 9km off the coast from Narooma, was known to the Yuin people as Barunguba and deeply connected to their Dreaming as the “eldest […]

I’ve seen sewerage vents with better aesthetics than this monstrosity. This is proof positive how far we’ve regressed as a species, and where efficiency and budgets have taken precedence over style and grace…and longevity! Beautiful location dreadful man made intrusion. Nothing to see here, move on!

Standing on a dramatic headland at the southern entrance to Ulladulla Harbour, the distinctive white tower of Warden Head Lighthouse has guided mariners safely to shore for well over a century. This small but resilient beacon represents a unique chapter in Australia’s maritime heritage, a lighthouse that quite literally found a new purpose and place […]

This is undoubtedly the most hauntingly tragic and desolate lighthouse in Australia. The New South Wales south coast has long been both a lifeline and a graveyard to mariners navigating Australia’s eastern shores. Of all the lighthouses that stand watch over these treacherous waters Cape St. George stands alone as one that embodies both human […]

As previously mentioned one of the reasons for my delayed departure, and melancholy mood on leaving Sydney was due to the fact that both the kids had decided to head overseas while I would be travelling meaning Marianne would be home alone for the first time in a long time. Over the past eight or […]

For me Point Perpendicular has always had a special place in my heart. This goes back to the fact that when my mother was a young girl her family had a holiday house at Huskisson and she told me how she use to go to sleep at night comforted by the flashing light at the […]