Wednesday, May 09, 2007

 

The Windiest Spot


Here I am with Mum at the windiest spot we have ever visited. You can see how windy it is by the angle of the bear on the rail and the way Mum's hair is trying to run away from her. We were at Cape Otway visiting the lighthouse. Cape Otway light is the oldest in Victoria and the third oldest on the mainland. It marks the northern entrance to Bass Straight and was often the first sight of land that sailing ships would see on their long voyage out from England. The coast around here has seen hundreds of shipwrecks because sometimes the captains thought the light was the one on the southern side of the straight. This was the furthest south we got on our road trip this year. It was so windy that it almost blew us backwards when we walked around the lighthouse. Dad says that was because there was absolutely nothing between us and Antarctica to stop the wind.

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