Bulwagga Bay

At the end of the driest summer that we had ever experienced, we couldn't help but wonder how far we could walk across the old rail bed that heads across Bulwagga Bay. Normally, the rocks that were the foundation of the railway are underwater, but we had seen them quite exposed this year.

We started our journey from Fort Crown Point. Armed with GPS, we started following the birding trails on the western side of the peninsula for an access point to the beach. Once we found it, we started following shoreline which went from sand to rocks. We slowly meandered on our path because the footing was tenuous and because we were looking for fossils (of which there were many). I even found a wrought iron rail spike dating from 1869.

Once we looked up from our feet, we noticed that we were halfway into the bay! It was the furthest that we had walked into the middle of a lake! We could see up the lake to the north and into the belly of Bulwagga Bay. After more fossil hunting, we made it back to the fort, satisfied with our small adventure of the day.