Monday, Sep 02, 2019 at 11:30
Hi Allan
There are no flies on you.....lol
I thought it might have had people guessing for a while.
When we were a little younger, we first visited the site in the mid 1970's
There were no stairs down the
cliff and you take to be careful that you did not fall.
The ship was still fairly
well in tack then and you could walk through it, but now it just a skeleton.
Built in 1876, the Ethel was a 711-tonne, three-masted iron ship. She ran aground in a storm while en route to South Africa in January 1904.
One man drowned as he tried to swim ashore with a rescue line, but the rest of the crew reached land safely.
The storm drove the ship onto
the beach above the low tide mark, where it remained intact for many years.
The hull finally collapsed in the mid-1980s, but there is still plenty to see, with many large pieces of rusted iron jutting from the sand, clearly marking the ship’s outline.
Memorial to the Ethel Wreck, overlooking Ethel Beach
The cliffs above Ethel Beach
There is now a well constructed stairway down to the beach
The Ethel Wreck
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