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4. Landing - and supplementing the supplies.
Supplies arrived every three months and were brought ashore at the landing by a dinghy. Not as simple as it sounds. In 1917 the landing was described as ‘practically a shelf of
rock with jagged boulders scattered around.’ (Department of Trade and Customs Minute Paper 19/4/1917.) Around 1920 it was upgraded and later a crane erected. The dinghy was housed in a boat shed built here in 1858. You can imagine how the early keepers supplemented their stores by rowing out to passing ships. Anything extra - maybe a bit more rum or tobacco - would have made life more pleasant. Fish caught from the landing and from a much more dangerous spot directly below the
lighthouse also supplemented the supplies.
The next part of the hike initially follows the old track that led up to the cottages.
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