The Fingal Spit, though it no longer exists, has so many stories to tell.
Up until the 1890s it was a regular pathway, covered in rocks and trees, and used as a walkway from what is now Fingal Island to the mainland.
Then in 1893 the "Maitland Gale" roared in from the south. It brought with it torrential rain and big waves, burst through the sandy finger of land and turned the headland into an island.
Fingal Spit became a thin sandy track between the beach and the island, but it came and went depending on the tide.
Once Stinker drove a truck over the spit. Not long afterwards he was able to navigate his boat over exactly the same track.
Many people saw it as a challenge to walk the Spit but, as Stinker says, it has many facets and needs to be treated with the greatest respect. There have been fatalities at Fingal Spit.
Today the Spit is completely gone.
Interestingly, the location was immortalised in a movie several years ago and Stinker just happened to be there.
He was fishing early one morning at Fingal and had the whole beach to himself. Completely out of nowhere, about 60 horses came thundering across the Spit, which was about one metre under water at the time.
Stinker was absolutely stunned at the spectacular sight and had no idea what was going on until a film crew popped out from behind the bushes.
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