Rapid Bay

We started the day with a healthy egg and bacon brekkie. 

As Monique loves the sea side, we decided to stay another day in Rapid Bay. This gave us the opportunity to explore the place a bit further.

Rapid Bay is a small town (just a few houses and a school) located on a small bay. The bay is only a few hundred meters wide and enclosed on both sides by cliffs / rock outcrops. On one side there is an old limestone quarry with 2 piers and on the other side a big cave. Today we took a better look at both.

We walked over the beach which consists of mainly pebbles. We first headed to the cave. Though wide on the outside it didn’t appear to be very deep. Besides the many swallows we only found glass and other rubbish that was left by less attentive visitors of the cave.

We then walked back towards the quarry. It was built by BHP to mine for lime which they needed for one of their steel smelters in NSW. The lime was transported by ship, hence they had builded a pier to get to deeper water. Once the quarry closed, the pier was a favourite attraction for fishermen, divers and alike. Sadly the pier had to be closed as nature didn’t threat it nicely (structural damage to rot and severe storms). To maintain tourism in this area the council has built a new slightly shorter and more modern pier that will last generations to come.