3:45PM - Malabar Abandoned WWII Coastal Defence Site: Part 2
We proceeded by foot down the former railway line and stumbled upon a family of four who were also just 'looking around', they followed us until we reached a tunnel where they asked us in amazement "Are you going in there?!", we replied, "Well, yeah", they muttered amongst themselves and I heard "I guess they haven't heard the stories". At this point I became even more curious as to what was in the tunnel, they explained to us that these were old POW prisons for the Japanese and that they were supposedly haunted. Even though at the time we didn't know their stories were nothing more than urban myth we decided to head on in anyways, they reluctantly followed us but soon backed out and went elsewhere.

Upon entering the tunnel we were presented with two routes, we took the right-hand side one, as we progressed deeper and deeper into the tunnel I was glad I brought my trusty torch along as it became nearly pitch black. We walked past numerous rooms to reach the end of the hallway where we found stairs going up into the light and stairs going further down. Naturally we decided to head further down and we soon found ourselves surrounded by bats! We could hear them flying everywhere and whooshing overhead, Kim reassured me they wouldn't bump into us but still I couldn't control my reflexes and kept flinching when a bat flew over right next to me.

Most of these images have been taken with flash (ugh, I know :P), although I wanted to capture how the place looked naturally, with only being able to use a maximum of a one second exposure, my non-flash shots turned out pitch black so keep in mind it was a lot more scarier, darker and mysterious than these pictures show. :)

| View towards Entrance (flashed) | View towards Entrance (no flash) | Defunct Machinery | Which Way? | Bats Galore! |

| Stairs | Rubble | Relic from the past |

Having had our fun with the bats we decided to head up the stairs and see where it would lead us and we found ourselves at what seemed to be a former mount for some sort of weapon or cannon. We headed back in and walked back to the start of the other hallway, with my camera I took some shots down the hallway and towards the door, I also noticed that the train track went down this route. As you can see my camera is really bad with low light situations, I had to use a torch to get shot, the best my camera can do is 1 second at ISO400. :(

 
| Cannon stand | Cannon stand | Hallway (no flash) | Hallway (torch lighted) | Entrance (flashed) |

| Coastline | Bondi Skyline, where we started! You can see that TX tower I photographed earlier | Sydney Skyscrapers poking thru | Coastline |

| Observation tower | Windows, closed | Windows, opened! :) |

| Panoramic view from observation level |