Palm Beach
Sandy beach beneath a sandstone headland lighthouse, flanked by ocean surf and calm estuary waters.
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This guide to Palm Beach in Sydney follows George Mulhall, the first keeper of the sandstone lighthouse finished on the headland in 1881, cut by Scottish stonemasons straight out of the rock beneath your feet. It covers the gruesome, specific story that sailors and locals repeated for decades about how he died at his post, and his wife Mary, buried beside him on the headland. Look east of the tower for the graves within sight of the light he once kept.
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