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Visit Bloodstone Point
Hobart, Tasmania, AustraliaAbout
Bloodstone Beach commences on the northern side of Goodstone Point and curves to the northeast, then north for 2.4 km to the small protruding Gulls Nest Point. The beach receives low refracted waves, which increase slightly in height up the beach. Bloodstone Point - one of the original ochre sources for the Tasmanian Aborigines. Put your feet up at White Gums Camp.Aborigines arrived on the island in reed canoes and used ochre from Bloodstone Point near the isthmus to decorate their bodies and hair and to produce bark paintings.Visit Bloodstone Point, where the Oyster Bay Aboriginal tribe collected stones to make hair colouring.
