<< Last Day on Lord Howe Island

08/13/24 - Original Settlement and Neds Beach

We signed out a golf cart a the hotel and did a little exploring. We drove out to the Original Settlement Beach. Saying "drove out" makes it sound like we did a lot of driving, but this whole journey was maybe 5 to 10 kilometers. Our golf cart didn't have an odometer. We drove past the main town and then a fishing port. We reached the end of the road and took the trail over a bridge and along the beach past where the original settlement had been established.

It was a pretty beach with some interesting birds, and the hills behind it were lush and green. The trail climbs inland and heads up into the northern hills of Lord Howe Island, but we turned around after having climbed one of the stair cases.

We drove on to Ned's Beach on the east side of the island. It's another lovely beach with a little shack where you can grab fish food if you want to wade out and feed the fishes. We weren't up to wading, but we did head out on the rocks and checked out the tide pools. There were no anemones or starfish, but the whole scene with the crashing waves and the exotic forest above us more than made up for it.



Some mist




The beach near the original settlment


On the beach




The little bridge

The stairs where we turned around

Ned's Beach





A kingfisher which might explain why they served kingfish at every meal


Tide pools

The forest

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