Four points
Posted by Campbell on | November 21, 2006
On the Sunday of Cup weekend a friend and I walked to the lighthouse at Wilson’s Prom (a fantastic walk, possibly the subject of a future post).
As we approached the granite teardrop at the point of the prom where the lighthouse stands I realised that I was about to complete the set of the East, North, West and South most points of the Australian mainland. Not like this was some long-held ambition* or tick-list or anything like that but still worthy of recognising, I reckon.
Four points of note:
- I saw an echidna within a couple of hundred metres of the tip of the Prom in 2006 and also within about ten metres of the tip of Cape York in 1994. I suppose in theory it could have been the same one but that’s probably pretty unlikely.
- I didn’t actually make it all the way out to Steep Point in WA (you need a 4WD), so I’m counting Shark Bay / Monkey Mia which is about as close as you can get in a normal car. Sue me.
- Can’t really remember much about Cape Byron. It would be cool to be able to say that this was because of all the great drugs we’d been taking but in all honesty it was just quite a long time ago and didn’t make that much of an impression.
- It’s good that you have to walk in to the lighthouse at the Prom (no Tidal River doesn’t count even if this contradicts point 2). You can more or less drive all the way to the other three. If you take the main track all the way, the distance from the car park to the lighthouse and back is almost exactly that of a marathon.
* I do have two long-held travel ambitions- to see a live volcano (ideally with flowing lava) and to see an iceberg (ideally as it calves from a glacier). Maybe I could do both with a trip to Iceland?
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November 23rd, 2006 @ 12:25 pm
I have only been to Cape Byron. Which, despite all the people was a very nice place.
Cape York would be an awesome experience.