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Monday July 11
At sea.
As one gets out of the Hunter and past the North Arm
of the Bay of Solimio are on a rough topography, nowhere
are there wide or long beaches, all are small with steep
cliffs back of them. The rocks ore are all green and
the mountains rise to at least 400 feet, here and then
they are pieces of an ancient trail at elevations of about
25 feet, the same that are seen in the upper end of the
Hunter in front of all the streams. These pieces of the ancient
trail are made up of the residual material that has
come down from the adjacent high lands.
The land all ends in sea cliffs like this:
A flat peninsula at the sky line does not exist, while
the green masses hold fairly true to a fairly uniform
level still the sky line is very irregular.
The land is indentified by pinks and open on the
left side leading landward into narrow canyons.
30' sea cliff
2100
400
over 700
over marked sea cliff
at about 400
Entrance area cliff
75' sea cliff
Have 3 photos of this place
To run over the place is known as Thoral Point. This refers to
the lower elevated track = Beverly Head
These beaches show more all along in front of Beverly Head north
to Chimney Cove. At the next head south, Cape Surjoy, one does