3/10/11 Murphy's Haystack, Talia Caves and Venus Bay

Murphy's Haystacks are pink granite inselbergs.  Local legend says that a Scottish agricultural expert passing by in the mail coach said:  "That farmer must harrow, look at all the hay he has saved."

Talia caves are a geological wonder.  The Woolshed is a long cave hollowed out by wave and wind action  into the cliff face.  Gerd's hat blew off his head into the channel.  He wanted to strip off and jump in and retrieve it and had to be verbally restrained!

The Tub at Talia Caves is a spectacular sink hole.  At high tide the sea whooshes up the cliff face and enters the bottom of the Tub through a large washed-out arch.

In the afternoon the weather changed and it started to rain. We drove to Venus Bay and gazed down  from the top of the dangerous, broken and undercut cliffs at some dolphins.