A quick look over the Australian National Maritime Museum on Sydney’s Darling Harbour. In the center is the Cape Bowling Green Lighthouse, built from iron plates on a hardwood frame. The lighthouse was relocated from just south of Townsville to Sydney in 1994.
Blowhole Point and the Kiama Light seen from the Bombo Headland, looking across Storm Bay.
The Kiama Light from the Blowhole viewing platform. Good weather and calm seas meant that we saw only a tiny little puff, rather than a blowhole!
The 16m tall Kiama Light, or the Kiama Harbour Light, on Blowhole Point.
The Bert Egan Memorial Lighthouse (replica) in the Eden Killer Whale Museum complex. The replica lighthouse houses a section of the staircase from the Gabo Island lighthouse and a display on fresnel lenses.
A final look at the concrete Green Cape Lighthouse.
The Green Cape Lighthouse and keeper’s cottages perched on top on the cliff.
The Green Cape Lighthouse, the first lighthouse in Australia built of concrete. Green Cape is also notable in being the tallest lighthouse in NSW and the most southerly lighthouse in the state.
The long road down to the Green Cape Lighthouse, our first sightseeing destination in NSW.
Pooint Hicks Lighthouse in East Gippsland is Australia’s tallest mainland light house. The adjoining keepers cottages were made of oregon taken from shipwrecks.
The Western Channel Pile Light, or the Wedding Cake, is a lighthouse standing at the edge of the Sow and Pigs reef in Sydney Harbour.
