Cheers,
Michael.
The abandond lighthouse with Needle Rocks in the background.
The houses where the volunteer caretakers stay, along with any other visitors to the island.
The only spot on the island where it can be accessed by boat, the inflatable dingy is returning to the distant boat, it was blowing very hard on the way out and was a wet but exciting little ride!!
Looking back at the dingy coming towards the boat, with the old shed seen on the hillside which used to host the equipment to haul gear up the haulage way on the island.
Part of Needle Rocks, the caretakers must take a photo of this rock each day and send it to CSIRO from memory and they count the number of seals, apparently there is quite a long unbroken set of data on seal numbers on this rock.
Inside the lighthouse
Looking out one of the lighthouse's windows to Needle Rocks
This is waht used to make the prisim go around, there is a chain attached to a heavy weight which slowly turns the prisim, and used to have to be reset every few hours from memory!! the light house has sadly now been replaced by an automated light further up the hill.
The landing site
Looking at the prism, they operated the prism for a little while and we got the oppertunity to get into the prism and look out, that was a weird little experience seeing everything distorted.
the $290 cost was well worth it. They did say they were likely to run another trip there this summer so it might be worth joining the group and keeping a look out for more daytrips!
