Heading south

This morning, we returned to South Point.  Our last visit there was on a super windy day, and we couldn't really walk around and investigate much.  Today the winds were calmer.  Some fishermen were fishing, and a couple of people jumped into the water off the cliff.

The South Point Complex is considered an important archaeological site, and records of human occupation there have been studied extensively.  This is one of the few places on earth where fishermen are able to go deep sea fishing from shore.

We parked near the end of the paved road, and walked down to the site of the historic canoe mooring holes.  Quite an impressive sight.  The holes in the rock enabled fishermen to tie their canoes to the rock with a strong rope and fish in extremely deep water, where anchoring isn't possible.  The danger of fishing off South Point is that the prevailing current sweeps south to Antarctica, with no land in between.