22nd September 1997.

Mega Stairway

We didn't do this one, we just looked at the entrance. It is located at the end of Royal Avenue off of Beach Road in Sandringham. The entrance is at the end of the rock gyrone on the beach at the base of the stairway which it runs under. The entrance is a dodgy looking 1.2 meter corrugated plastic pipe encrusted with barnacles. Even at low tide it would require some wading into the water and should best be done only in the really hot days of summer. We decided to leave it till then.

We highly and strongly recommend that if you do this tunnel you obtain details of when low tide will occur and do it within an hour of low tide. There is a manhole on the stairway which may be worth trying to prise open.

New developments at Gilligan's 1997
We next drove to the beach entrance of Gilligan's to see that a lot of new work was taking place. A new gyrone has been built along with a concrete junction box with a short wooden section over it. If they end up leaving the junction box how it is there will be easy access to this tunnel however I suspect that some sort of grille or other covering will be used to block access. However there's a nice new manhole / grid? which may afford easy access. Would have liked to pop in but there was heaps of people around.

Up the beach, opposite the New St rail crossing there are a lot of narrow but long sections of metal pipe stacked up ready for installation in some place, indicating new work.

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