The boulders
As if on fire.
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The Bay of Fires is a bay on the north-east coast of Tasmania, Australia, running from Binalong Bay to Eddystone Point. It is known for white beaches, blue water and orange granite boulders, and in 2005 it was named among the world's finest beaches. Captain Tobias Furneaux named it in 1773, when he saw the fires of Aboriginal people on the beaches from his ship. Its palawa kani name is larapuna. Bay whaling took place here in the 1840s. Its northern part lies in Mount William National Park, and its southern end is a conservation area. You see huge grey granite boulders covered in bright orange lichen, as if on fire, at the edge of clear turquoise water. Between them lie small coves of fine white sand and calm rock pools, with low green hills behind. It is about 21 km from the town of St Helens in a straight line. The orange colour on the rocks comes from lichen, not the rock itself.
As if on fire.
White sand.
Calm rock pools.
North-east coast of Tasmania, Australia
Captain Furneaux saw Aboriginal fires on the beaches in 1773.
Lichen growing on the granite.