Wedding Cake Rock
Tiered slab of pure white sandstone perched on an ocean cliff, fenced off as dangerously unstable.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Wedding Cake Rock traces how a photo-worthy ledge above Sydney's coastline turned deadly in 2014, when a backpacker chasing the perfect shot fell from its tiered white sandstone. It follows the rock's unusual iron-leached color, and how an Instagram-fueled surge in visitors around 2015 turned a quiet lookout into a magnet for risk-takers. Stay behind the fence and look down at the pale, fresh scars on the rock face below you.
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