My writing seems to have drifted from shipwrecks, anchors & cannon to maritime graves now. That brings me to revisit the topic of The Stenhouse Bay Lookout Walk, a topic that I wrote about almost 10 ½ years ago – see https://mlssa.org.au/2014/07/17/the-stenhouse-bay-lookout-walk/.
There is a Stenhouse Bay Lookout Walk adjacent to the Stenhouse Bay jetty. It is said to be a 2km easy walk that takes about 1 hour to complete. It is a loop walk that returns to the start near the picnic and information shelter by the anchor display overlooking the jetty.
The views from the walk are beautiful. The trail meanders to the cliff top and the grave of Dao Thanh, a Vietnamese sailor who was killed on March 25, 1940, when he was struck by a bag of coal on board the SS Notue.
There is an interpretive sign for the grave there: -
According to the sign, the SS Notue came into port on 25th March 1940. Dao Thanh from Vietmam had been killed in an accident when he was struck by a bag of coal. Being a Buddhist, he could not be buried at sea. His body was placed in a coffin made by a local carpenter and he was buried at this site.
The trail winds around the headland from here, with views of Haystack and Althorpe Islands: -
The island above the arrow is (the mis-named) Seal Island, home to Australian sea lions.
The next stop is Goofy Hut, set up following the bombing of Darwin in February 1942. The RAAF consulted with the mining company to set up volunteer air observer corps, who reported plane and ship sightings. From the site, the trail rises gently to the first lookout – the surveillance site.”
There are some wonderful coastal views along the trail, too many to share here.
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