Vaucluse Bay Front and Rear Lights
If you think you are seeing things when blue and white lighthouse appears in the front garden of 12 Wentworth Road, Vaucluse as you drive past, your eyes are not deceiving you. It is in fact a functional harbour marker, one of two used to define the eastern channel of Port Jackson. The light gives ships that have entered the Harbour a guide as to the line of the eastern channel of Port Jackson south from inside The Heads. It lines up with the Vaucluse Bay Front Light, located nearer to water level to the east of Parsley Bay at No. 80 Wentworth Avenue, Vaucluse. They are two of four lighthouses on Sydney Harbour designed by architect Maurice Festu in a style sometimes called “Disney Castle”.
Character: fixed or leading light. Power source: Mains electricity, Standby Diesel. Height: 8 metres. Front Light; UBD Map 237 Ref M 2; elevation 16 metres. Rear Light: UBD Map 237 Ref M 2; elevation 84 metres.
Public transport: Bus No. 324, L24 from Circular Quay. alight at cnr New South Head & Hopetoun Rds, walking along Hopetourn Rd, left into Wentworth Rd.
The other marker can be found at the following but can only been seen from the water Vaucluse New South Wales 2030 -33.849217, 151.274292