I Green Cape Lighthouse

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Southern Lights

There is something about lighthouses. They are always bleak and forbidding places as a result of their placement upon the edge of lands thrust into the brunt of the wild oceans.

Yet they hold a romantic thrall. Their feet are littered by the wrecks of craft which caused these huge monoliths to be placed where they are.

Gabo Island is a rather bleak and tussocky place, battered by the worst of bad Bass Strait weather. At one time this island was linked to the mainland by a thin strip of sand, and one of the workmen who lived on the mainland, but worked on the island, at times had to keep repair­ing the sand bridge so that he could get to work.