The skeletal remains of the Norwegian barque Ethel, driven ashore in 1904 and still visible on the beach below the cliffs.
The Ethel was a three-masted iron barque wrecked on this remote beach in January 1904 after dragging her anchors in a gale. More than a century of pounding surf has stripped her to a rusting skeleton, the curved ribs of her hull rising from the sand at low tide. A short, steep walk down from the clifftop lookout leads to the wreck and the wide surf beach, one of the most photographed scenes in Innes National Park.
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- Wreck of the Ethel 2007.jpg by Peripitus , CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons