You might recall that the battery is on Victoria Peak which is at Devonport. We drove down last weekend. That is the walk that we took in the rain. When we got there we wondered a bit and then found another trail we had not explored before. It took us right along the coastline but above the lava rocks. I am sure it was an area that they worried about during times of war because if the tide was low it made them vulnerable to enemies coming on land. We went through a tunnel, which I did not like at all, and up and over and around. It was a great walk.
Off is the distance we saw a container ship leaving port. Nice rainbow huh? The clouds were so heavy with rain but luckily we were dry by now.
He seems like he is pretty happy to be out walking. Look at all the lichens on the trees! There is a mountain on the right of the photo and a cliff on the left.
I thought this was such an interesting tree growing up the side on the rocks.
This is what is left from on of the defences during the war. The harbour was closed off with a net that extended from one side of the harbour to the other. There was a large steel net that was hooked to these posts in the ground. There were several that we could still see. There are some on the other side. When a ship was either coming in or going out they would open the net with large ships that just waited to do that. I remember seeing movies about WWII where they would show a big ship going into a harbour and the enemy submarine would slip into the harbour underneath the ship and then they would bomb the ships and sink them all and in the end win the war! I am not sure if anything that exciting happened here or not.
Eventually we wound our way to the top. I thought this was a nice photo.
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