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Mystery Bay
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Mystery Bay has an interesting history (click to read more).
The strangest tale from those days is the mysterious disappearance of five men from Bermagui. Their empty boat was found on rocks on Sunday afternoon, 10 April 1880, at what is now Mystery Bay.
Among the men was NSW Mines Department geological surveyor Lamont Young sent from Sydney with his assistant to survey the Montreal goldfields. He arrived on the Friday, set up camp at Bermagui Heads and reported to the appropriate people at the goldfields Saturday morning. He was invited to dinner that night and fishing on Sunday but failed to keep both appointments. The boat belonged to Thomas Towers of Batemans Bay who had gone to Bermagui with two companions to sell potatoes to miners. Young set up camp near theirs. The boat contained several large rocks, the planks were stove out not in and the anchor and stern ropes were missing. Many of Young’s personal effects were found in the boat plus a small blue glass bottle containing a fluid suspected of being poison. Police initially believed the five men had drowned but the investigation was compromised with crucial evidence destroyed and some never properly examined. A subsequent inquiry concluded they had been murdered. The authorities were never able to determine whether Young and his assistant had even left Bermagui in Tower’s boat. They mystery remains.
(From www.eurocoast.nsw.gov.au/CulturalMap/history/MysteryofMys…
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