Bart Bear's Blog

Here's one of my favourite lighthouses, Warden Head light near Ulladulla. It was built in 1873 and originally put on the breakwater at the harbour. This turned out to be the wrong location as ships kept hitting the reefs outside Warden Head, 1.5 km south of the harbour, so the lighthouse was moved to the headland in 1879. It is a twin of the lighthouse at Wollongong harbour. These are the only lighthouses in NSW made from riveted iron plates. There is a good sealed road to the lighthouse, so we visit it any time we are in that part of the coast. Our last visit was on a wet, wild day in December and you can see the waves breaking on the shallow reefs. There are deeper reefs further out and these are where ships came to grief. The area is a great whale-watching spot and is packed with people in the season. The cliffs of the headland are full of marine fossils and you can pick samples up where parts of the cliff face have collapsed. Of course you need low tide on a calm day to walk around the rock shelf, not a day like this one.

Labels: lighthouse, New South Wales, south coast

# posted by Bart Bear @ 3:44 pm