Perpendicular Smell–Jervis Bay

Daily Telegraph - March 1932

When one of the light-keepers at Point Perpendicular, at the entrance to Jervis Bay, came on duty one evening recently he sniffed the air, and observed, "Someone has been throwing dead fish out round here." No one could find the fish, but, whenever the wind blew from the northward the smell pervaded the air. As the days went on it grew stronger. But it was not fish, but a 50-feet whale, which had driven head on into a little opening in the cliffs near the lighthouse, and stuck there. Nothing could be done about it, and the light-keepers just had to hope that there would be an unusual prevalence of south winds for the next few months.


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