Bart Bear's Blog

Sometimes you just have to go a little bit outside the rules. I mean, just look at this sign. It says that all sorts of nasty things might happen to you if you go off the path or outside the safety fences. The problem of course is that the interesting bits are all off the path and outside the fences. Scruffy and I are very interested in geology and the rocks on the Blowhole Point at Kiama are the best example of weathered volcanic lava that we have ever seen. Naturally, we had to go off the track and climb up the rocks to get a good look at them. There is a lot of moss and lichens in the crevices in the rock, but fortunately the rocks we were on were too high and dry for crabs to be a problem. If only we had remembered to take the geology hammer the expedition would have been a great success. Instead it ended on a bit of a low note when the Oldies found us outside the fence in a spot where a big freak wave could have got us. We knew we were Ok, but Oldies do tend to worry.

Labels: beach, climbing, New South Wales, south coast