Tourist attraction
Hornby Lighthouse
S Head Heritage Trail, Watsons Bay NSW 2030
Red-and-white striped sandstone tower built after a catastrophic wreck, on a windswept harbour headland.
This guide to Hornby Lighthouse in Sydney returns to a wild August night in 1857, when the ship Dunbar, eighty-one days out from England, closed in on what should have been the harbour entrance in a howling gale. It follows the public outcry that followed, and the colonial architect commissioned to build a light on this headland the next year. Listen for how the tower got its stripes, and its name, from a family with no connection to the sea at all.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.