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Watsons Bay lies along the Sydney Harbor, on the tip of South Head. It's home to HMAS Watson (the Royal Australian Navy School), the Macquarie light house, steep coastal cliffs and beautiful harbor beaches.
The ferry to Watsons Bay is smaller than the Manly ferry and stops at two other bays, Double Bay and Rose Bay, on the way.
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| Double Bay |
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| Rose Bay |
Watsons Bay was named after Robert Watson, the Harbor Master and keeper of the Macquarie lighthouse in 1811 and 1816, respectively.
A short walk from the Watson Bay Wharf is Camp Cove, a beautiful beach with impressive views of the harbor and, according to lonely planet, the landing spot for governor Phillips first fleet of convicts in 1788:
From camp cove I continued on to the South Head heritage trail to the Horby lighthouse:
The Hornby Lighthouse was erected, along with the lightkeeper's cottage, in 1858, one year after the infamous wreck of the Dunbar which claimed 121 lives:
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| Hornby Lighthouse | |
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| Nineteenth-century gun abutment |
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| View from North Head |
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| Lightkeeper's cottage |
The Gap Bluff is the site where, in 1857, the Dunbar crashed; only one person survived from a ship carrying 122 people.
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| Anchor of the Dunbar, recovered in 1910. |
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| Gap Bluff |
The views from the top of the bluff gave you a good vantage point of the harbor, from the heads all the way down to the city. The sun was beginning to go down and the cloudy weather turned to rain, on and off, producing multicolored skies of orange and red and casting strong, low light bursts of light from the sun through the clearings in the clouds.
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| View of Sydney from Gap Bluff |
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| The harbor heads |
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| View out to sea from the bluff |
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| Harbor bridge from afar |
The coastal cliff walk was my last walk at Watson Bay, the sun was going down and my time here was being cut even shorter by the prospect of rain.
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