Point Perpendicular Lighthouse (Jervis Bay)

A bone rattling 10km drive along an unsurfaced road, much corrugated by, we guess, tank tracks as this was Ministry of Defence land. We'd seen the lighthouse and high cliffs from the other side of Jervis Bay on the previous day and felt we'd like to take a look. The old lighthouse, built in 1898, has now been made redundant by the solar panelled light on the scaffolding structure to the left.

A kilometre walk to `Outer Tubes' from the lighthouse took us through a lovely area of heathland flowering shrubs with views of headlands and bays beyond. Outer Tubes is now frequented by fishermen but named after the the torpedo tubes installed there during World War II. The Ministry of Defence has provided a set of metal steps to make accessing the rock platform safer, though the final part of the walk is still a rock scramble access to the wave-cut platform. Rounding the corner we came across two young men busy fishing. Apparently this is one of only two places in the world where tuna and merlin can be caught from the land. As we'd neared the bottom of the track we'd come across two pushchairs padlocked to a tree and couldn't understand why anyone would bring young children down to this point. Finally we understood, the pushchairs were not for children but to carry the fishing tackle and any fish caught back to the car-park.