Pirates Bay

Before reaching Port Arthur, we thought a couple narrow necks of land that connect the nearly-island chunks of land to the mainland. One of these is at Eagle Neck on Pirates Bay Drive.

The view above is looking SSE and you can see the narrow rock called the Totem Pole. Unless I am mistaken (and this is always possible), this figures into the Australian Series The Kettering Incident (check it out on Amazon Prime).



Much closer to us in the grass near the road we found a Superb Fairy Wren.

This low promontory of land is where we are headed with more sights in store. Here we will find the Blowhole and Fossil Island (this is the piece of low-lying land nearest the camera with boats just to the right).

There is a nice stretch of beach here although it looks pretty difficult to reach with the cliffs and long stretch of bush between it and the road. I'm sure these enterprising Aussies have found a way.

in fact, at the near end of the beach blocked by the trees is a path down to the beach where we will see there is some interesting patterning in the rocks at that point. It is called the Tessellated Beach.