
This column's ongoing obsession with rocks, tree stumps and clouds that resemble animals is no secret. The 200-plus such examples which have graced these pages over the past 12 years is proof of my fanatical fixation.
Among those naturally occurring look-a-likes that received the most feedback from readers was Horse Head Rock near Bermagui. In fact, previously little-known beyond Sapphire Coast surfers and seafarers, the approximately 500-million-year-old rock weathered by millennia of restless seas into the familiar shape of a horse's head has since become somewhat of a rock star.