Wedding Cake Rock Fence
Standing or sitting on the rock or cliff edges poses a very high safety risk.
Wedding cake rock fence. Allow 2 hours return there and back. Work has started on a new safety fence at wedding cake rock in the royal national park to reduce the chances of people dying for a selfie. Wedding cake rock also known as white rock is a sandstone rock formation located in the royal national park near bundeena new south wales australia accessible via the royal national park coast track.
Wedding cake rock is unstable and has a fence around it for your safety. The rock is one of many formations that appear north of marley beach and is suspended 25 metres 82 ft above sea level. The site at wedding cake rock is protected by a 1 6 metre high fence erected in 2016 in an attempt to prevent tourists from standing on the rock abc.
This is the start of the coast track. There is a locked gate at the end of beachcomber ave bundeena. A geotechnical survey of the rock conducted one month after fences were put in place revealed wedding cake rock was incredibly unstable with formation likely to collapse within the next 10 years.
But despite a 1 6 metre high fence large warning signs and threats of 3300 fines thousands of social media users continue to put their lives at risk by taking photos at the site. An instagram post taken on the edge of wedding cake rock. A survey of wedding cake rock revealed the formation is likely to collapse within a decade.
A geotechnical survey shows the wedding cake rock sandstone feature is highly unstable and could collapse into the ocean below at any time. Wedding cake rock closed the fence is staying. The site at wedding cake rock is protected by a 1 6 metre high fence erected in 2016 in an attempt to prevent tourists from standing on the rock.
A 2015 geotechnical report found the rock could collapse at any time without warning into the sea 50 metres below. There will be no more access to wedding cake rock. A 2015 geotechnical report reportedly.