Mythology of Place - James K Baxter - 1993 - 94 - Lloyd Godman - Lawrence Jones

Brighton Coastal Otago World

The main road to Brighton from Dunedin climbs up from Ocean view above the rock cliffs and banks that fall off into the ocean between Ocean View and Brighton and cuts though the neck of Big Rock on the top left of this image. The view from the top of the rock offers an expansive panorama north past Blackhead and on toward the headland's of the Otago Peninsular, and south to the  curving coastline  where the Tiaeri River meets the ocean. 
On top grows a Macrocarpa tree where in the 1980s some soul contemplated death above the ocean and then hung himself from its branches.
The view from the top is spectacular and affords commanding visas of the coast line both south and north; it is a place that Godman often uses to check the surf from.