Sept 3, 2025 More Port Mac Exploration
Our host offered to show us a few interesting sites around town and some further afield!
He started out taking us to the Tacking Point Lighthouse, one end of the coastal trail.
Then we headed south to a higher point at North Brother Lookout.
top pic; Looking east toward the little town of North Haven from North Brother Lookout.
bottom pic; looking west towards Middle Brother Mountain beyond Watson Taylors Lake. There is a South Brother mountain as well, out of the picture!
We descended to North Haven and saw the beach where our host used to go surfing until he found out how many sharks frequent the area due to the fishermen cleaning their catch nearby! The pelicans like the fish cleaning station also!
After lunch we headed into the woods to find “Old Bottlebutt”, the largest Red Bloodwood tree in the southern hemisphere, with a girth of 16 m (over 52 feet)!
4 wheeling through the forest, our host took us to Bago Bluff on Rollover Road, for a scary overlook down into a eucalyptus forest where we spotted some fires (one turned out to be a bush fire!). He returned us safely to town and we watched dogs frolicking in the evening surf at the off-leash beach close to where we started the day!