Wartime Watch and Submarine Stories
Lookouts, rumours, and a 1945 photo of crates on Second Beach — the coast during the war.
A watched coast
Horizons got attention. Unfamiliar vessels got talked about. Lighthouses and headlands became lookouts.
The submarine stories
Japanese submarine sightings are part of local memory — told as fact by some, as rumour by others. We do not adjudicate; we record.
The concrete bit
The 1945 photo of Air Force supplies at Second Beach is the one hard artifact: uniforms, crates, sand. Everything else is story.
Timeline
- The war years: Remote beaches, lighthouses, and harbours take on new meaning.
- 1945: Air Force supplies at Second Beach.
- Today: The watch stories remain part of coastal memory.
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