TasTour06-22

Pirate Bay - the other side of the Blowhole. The coastal rock stacks here are awe-inspiring, especially when pounded by huge swells from deep in the Southern Ocean.

Whenever we visited this place as a child my father saw it as his protective duty to instill in us a morbid fear of being washed off the rocks and drowned. The memorials on the rocks to those who had indeed met that fate helped to create the mood of being in a haunted place.

Convicts escaped from Port Arthur and lurked along this coast waiting their chance to swim across Norfolk Bay to avoid the infamous line of chained guard dogs across Eagle Hawk Neck (try saying that when you’re only three). Haunted indeed…