Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The Bridge Rocks and Blue Rocks: inhabited cliffs of the Eastern Shores

The Bridge Rocks is a pair of very high rocks that are not the Pillars so common to the Northern Shores. There is the natural bridge at the base of the rocks, and almost 600 feet high up, the rock settlers have already built a reinforced bridge protected against the winds brought on the storms sucked down into the warm waters by the high mountain action. The cliffs of the bays have also been settled. The residents are mainly fishermen and mineworkers.


Close along the Eastern Shore are the treacherous Blue Rocks - why didn't they call them Mean Rocks? - extremely dangerous to shipping, but so convenient for residential use, considering that it is only 30 minutes by seaplane or hydrofoil to Morau or Waldihnok. The houses have been cut into rock above the line of storm wave action. Many walkways and roadways along the treacgerous beach have been cleared of gravel, well lit at night and asimplydd a very exotic touch to the locale.

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