Near Port Campbell, (the twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, and counting down apostles) part of the 'shipwreck coast', is the wreck the Loch Ard . The ship was wrecked on the sheer cliffs off Muttonbird Island on 1 June 1878. It was carrying over fifty people on board when it hit rocks and broke up just a few days short of its three month voyage from England. Only four bodies were ever recovered and just two people survived. My great, great, grandfather was one of those drowned.
Luckily his grandson, my father, decided to give it a second go and so we ended up a bit further up the coast - Sydney.
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