A fairly long day of exploring today- dirt road driving with stops for points of interest.
This area is actually a well-known whaling area. Thus, the first stop was Davidson Whaling station. This was started by brothers and continued into the 1960s. The hut remaining here is still very true to old. The actual whaling artefacts have been taken and some are in the Eden Museum.
Pretty nearby is Boyd’s Tower. The original intention was to use this as a lighthouse but permission was never granted for this. It thus became a whale spotting tower. Boyd is an important entrepreneur of the time and owned large sheep stations in the area as well as businesses in town. He was also unfortunately known in trading aboriginal people for slave labour in these stations.
While I was at Boyd’s Tower I did a small section of the Light to Light Walk from here. Not all of it was open -and it is a multi-day hike.
Saltwater Creek was a campsite where no one was camped at. The creek hadn’t flown into the sea yet. City Rock wasn’t much to write home about at all.
The wind was pretty strong at Green Cape- and the lighthouse. The cottages are very nicely restored though, and I had 2 great wildlife experiences.
The first was an echidna who tried to cross the path, then hid when he saw me …and came out a little later. He waddled all the way down the hill! The second was a couple of wombats who were out feeding on the way back from the lighthouse. Usually nocturnal -I’m glad I got to see them.
One of my favourite and most dramatic lookouts is Disaster Bay -its just magnificent! The Wonboyn River comes in to a headland and out to see.
The last stop for the day was Bittangbee Bay.
What I came home with that I didn’t want to though- ticks!!!! I asked one of the guys who’d been camping out and I had spoke to the day before for help it removal. Jeff is his name. Unfortunately, my tick bite was on my side and just under my bra. I couldn’t clearly see it nor remove it. So he was it! We froze it a couple of times and removed it… I then also noticed 2 more bites during the following days 
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