Dhilba Guuranda-Innes NP
0.5 km (0.25 hrs )
★★★☆☆

Built in 1876, the Ethel was a 711-tonne, three-masted iron ship. She ran aground in a storm while en route from South Africa in January 1904. Most of the crew reached land safely, although one man drowned while trying to swim to shore. The storm drove the ship onto the beach above the low tide mark, where it remains to this day.

The hull of the Ethel collapsed in the mid-1980s, but many large pieces of rusted iron still jut out from the sand, marking the ship’s outline. The amount that can be seen varies with the shifting sand, but many pieces were clearly visible when I visited. The beach and shipwreck can be visited by descending the wooden staircase from the cliffs overlooking the beach.