It’s officially spring in Australia, and I decided to take
advantage of the warm weather to check out Jibbon Beach in Bundeena, a
small town that can only be accessed via ferry or by driving through the Royal
National Park. I’ve taken the ferry before, so I decided to take the drive
through the park down a winding two lane road until I reached the beach access
point.
Trailhead
Jibbon Beach - the water is so calm and blue.
My ultimate destination was the Aboriginal rock engravings at
the far end of Jibbon Beach. It was fairly deserted except for a couple of
people on kayaks, and as I reached the end of the beach I came upon a grass
clearing, where a group of about 20 people were gathered around a man who was
burning incense and rhythmically hitting two sticks together; I decided my best
course of action was to walk quickly past them avoiding all eye contact. I
continued a few hundred meters more to Little Jibbon Beach. My guide had warned
that many people treat this as a nude beach (which it isn’t), and advised me to
call the police hotline if I came across anyone in their birthday suit. Fortunately
the beach was deserted, and I was treated to views across Port Hacking to
Cronulla.
Little Jibbon
I was disappointed to find a construction zone all around
the engraving site. A lone tradesman was working on the viewing platform being
constructed at the side, and he was blasting Top 40 radio from a boom box next
to his lunch pail. It was interesting to see the engravings, estimated to be
about 2000 years old, but the ambience was definitely compromised.
Entrance to the engraving site
A whale I think?
Wallaby or kangaroo?
Fortunately
I continued walking a little bit farther and the views up and down the
coastline were spectacular.
View of the coast
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