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Warkworth Parish Sheet 47 Plan 5

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Bondi Carrs The Bondi Carrs Josiah Lockie Immediately Flat rocks jutting out
The Bondi Carrs George Henderson south of into the Sea. The name
The Bondi Carrs William Hall The Silvercarrs Bondicarrs has been
Bondi Carrs Revd J. W. Dunn "Carrs" locally is a applied to them for
synonyme of "Rocks" upwards of a century.
they extend far beyond
low water mark
and previous to the
erection of a Light
house on Coquet
Island it was not
an uncommon
sight to see half a
dozen vessels ashore
together, the dangerous
nature of these rocks is
pointed out in the following lines
"Sail you nigh or sail you far,
Beware of the rocks of
Bondicarr."

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Transcribed by PF and PT

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