What is Earth From Down Under

Earth from Down Under is a blog about our twice in a lifetime retirement visits to the Antipodes with stops in Hawai'i. To stay in touch with friends and family while on our trip, we will post updates as often as possible. (Click on the photos to enlarge them for the full effect.)



Sunday, March 28, 2010

Tunnel Beach

Brave American Girl (not me!)
Duncan in the Tunnel
Hiding Behind the Rocks at Tunnel Beach

After tea we went for a drive and walk down to Tunnel Beach. Be warned, it's 20 minutes to walk down and 45 to get back up. In the 1870s a local named Edward Cargill hired someone to cut through the solid sandstone to build a passage to this beautiful beach for his family to save them the up and down climbs. We stood in a protected area behind huge boulders watching the waves crash around us.
A brave American girl entrusted her expensive camera to us and stood out on a point as we took her photo. She was so close to the edge, it gave me the shivers. The next day the Christmas family, our hosts at Blackhead Cottage, told us that the teenaged Cargill daughter had actually drowned at this spot. How eerie and sad.
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