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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Tim the Yowie Man

Meet the newest 'rock' star of social media

Horse Head Rock is "the talk of the town" according to Bermagui Beach Hotel publican Luke Redmond. Picture: Tom Corra, Let's be Adventurers Australia

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.

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