Grotto Point Lighthouse - Yamba
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The Grotto Point light is located in a densely vegetated section of the Sydney Harbour National Park, an area well-preserved from urbanisation due to its long term use as a army defence land. The walk to the light from the nearest park entrance is about 800 metres, most of it downhill, and on rough dirt tracks not well sign-posted. The roof of the lighthouse can be seen sometime before you reach the light, but once there, it is worth the effort.
The Grotto Point lighthouse is a cute, quaint, short tower with attached building, fenced on all sides by a picket fence, with one side overhanging the cliff face. The shape of the tower, along with the small rectangular window through which the light shines, gives it the appearance of an old-fashioned red post box. The rectangular window also gives a creepy appearance of being a singular "Cyclops" eye in an expressionless face. The Parriwi Light, (and the Vaucluse Leading Lights, which we did not see during this trip), also have similar small "eye" through which their light shines, and were all designed by the same architect, Maurice Festu, in the early 1910s