Needle Eye Lookout
A dramatic clifftop lookout near Venus Bay where the ocean carves the limestone into arches and stacks.
The ocean at work
The Needle Eye Lookout, on the wild coast near Venus Bay, looks out over a stretch where the Southern Ocean has been hard at work — undercutting the soft limestone cliffs into arches, blowholes and rocky stacks, and sending spray high into the air on a big swell.
A short walk from the car park brings you to the lookout platform, with the namesake rock formation below and the open ocean stretching to the horizon. In winter and spring it is a fine place to scan for southern right whales, which pass along this coast on their migration.
It is part of the cluster of clifftop lookouts that make the Venus Bay coastline one of the most scenic on the west coast.
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- Venus Bay General Store, 2017 (01).jpg by Bahnfrend , CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons