The Wedding Cake Rock is an odd geological formation located only northward of Marley Beach most Bundeena inside the Royal National Park , inwards New South Wales. The dazzling white sandstone stone has a perfect 90° corner as well as a apartment piece of employment past times , equally if it has been curved past times a knife. Some tell , it resembles a sliced marriage ceremony cake. Others consider a block of tofu or cheese.
The Wedding Cake Rock is i of many limestone formations along the Royal Coastal Walk rails —a 26km long rails along the cliffs of the Royal National Park from Bundeena to Otford. The landscape consist of steep valleys , ridges as well as rocky outcrops alongside panoramic views of the bounding main stretching for miles around. Along the agency you’ll meet streams , waterfalls as well as pools. Wedding Cake Rock is situated 5.1 kilometers from the commencement of the trail at Bundeena.
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In early on 2015 , Wedding Cake Rock saw a precipitous increase inwards popularity. The New South Wales National Parks as well as Wildlife Service reported that the publish of visitors per calendar month on the Royal National Park Coast Track rose from the average of two ,000 per calendar month to over 10 ,000. This turned out non to go practiced thing. These visitors had come upward subsequently they saw pictures of the stone on the social media site Instagram. They sat on the stone or dangled from it , as well as took selfies spell performing unsafe stunts. And worse — roughly vandals wrote over the perfectly white formation alongside chalk.
Park officials became concerned , non entirely for the security of the visitors , but for the security of the stone itself. They feared that the weight of thirty or forty people standing on the stone mightiness impairment it or tip the stone to i side. The site was eventually unopen off inwards May 2015. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 subsequent evaluation of the stone revealed , to the Park’s surprise , that the formation was non entirely unstable , but was sure as shooting to collapse at anytime inside the side past times side 10 years. The study constitute that the entire construction was precariously balancing on the border of the cliff , as well as severely undercut. The stone is forthwith permanently cordoned off to the public.
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