(13) Split Point

One of my favourite lighthouses Split Point is located at Airey's Inlet on the Great Ocean Road, which is a stunning scienic drive in Victoria.

Helped by strong blue skies that you can see above when I visited on 13th Jan 2007 the tower looks like it has just been painted. You can walk all around it and get lots of different views, also you can see it from miles away it really stands out. The beaches around it are favourites for surfers and the whole area has a really good vibe about it.

I've added some different views of the lighthouse.

(12) Cape Otway

This is mainland Australia's oldest surviving lighthouse built in 1848.

For many of the immigrants that came to Australia from Europe around this time it would have been the first thing that they saw of their new home.

We started our drive along Victoria's Great Ocean Road at this point and I took this picture on 12th Jan 2007.

(11) Hornby

I'll never forget taking the picture of this lighthouse. It was on the Manly Ferry which you board from Circular Quay in Sydney. On the way to Manly, at about this point you hit the swell of the sea and there is strong movement on the ferry. I did however manage to capture the moment and take this beautiful lighthouse, like no other one that I've ever seen.

The red and white vertical strips making a change form the same pattern but usually in the horizontal design.


Hornby was built at the entrance of the world's greatest natural harbours in 1858, I took this picture on 9th Jan 2007.

This was to be the first of three lighthouses that I would see in this amazing country.