A short drive south of Coolangatta airport is a coastal headland that conveniently marks the border between New South Wales and Queensland. Captain Cook named the headland Point Danger when he first sighted it in 1770 as his ship Endeavour nearly hit reefs.
Captain James Cook memorial and light house.
The elevated headland is a popular place to view migratory whales as they traverse the NSW coastline which was the case when the Bazflyers visited Point Danger. Whales head north to the warm coastal waters of Queensland and the Coral Sea to mate and give birth from late April to August, and then from September to November they return, often close to the coast, on their way back to southern waters.
Southerly view from Point Danger.
A number ofl memorials grace Point Danger and among these is a memorial to the lives lost when on 24 May 1943 the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was torpedoed and sunk by enemy action with the loss of 268 non-combatant lives. Only 64 survived. This little known WW2 episode was closed only in 2009 when the sunken wreck was discovered out to sea off Point Danger.
This newly completed and rather unique pod-house takes advantage of an elevated site on Point Danger.
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