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    1. [AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L] Lighthouses GREENCAPE
    2. K newton
    3. Slightly north of Mallacoota and Gabo Island is Greencape Lighthouse. The site of the ship wreck the" ley e moon" (please excuse the spelling) and the "terra star" a fishing trawler that also went down a few years ago. The lye e moon cemetery is just a short distance from the light house. It has always been an interesting place to visit ( bring your coat) but is even more so now as the national parks has a ranger who does trips every couple of hours these days and the two assistant light house keepers quarters are now (or soon to be) available to stay in. I have been inside them (as the tour includes a look through until everything is organised) and they are really nice.....all the mod. cons. etc and the way that they are built is really interesting even if you know nothing (like me) especially the light house the escalation etc. etc.needed to erect it was amazing especially given the conditions etc. The price for a trip up the light house is about $17.00 from memory for the whole family (we had extras on both our recent trips and that wasn't a problem) cheaper again for pensioners etc. And the view alone on a clear day is worth it. (Although when a good swell is running it's even better a show) Well worth a trip if anyone is up this way (although the road in can be a bit of a bother....) Be really good to go there during October (whale watching season) as they come really close and actually feed in the waters off here before they make their dash down to Antarctica. Another interesting thing is Batangabee Bay....bit too early in history for all of our relatives.... it has what is left of the old ruins that are still thought to be Spanish (there used to be a lot more of the ruins before they pulled them down to see if they could tell....) Heavens I sound like a walking commercial. Sorry for boring uninterested interested folks and being slightly north of the border. Thought the light house chat would be interesting for some. P.S Mother Mary Mc Kellops mothers body (was being taken to Sydney for burial) was on the Lye e moon when she went down off Greencape.] Allison Merimbula Sapphire Coast

    08/09/1999 06:45:24