Vanlife @thebeach

Hi!

This beach has seen some history! Back in the days, this was the site of the Quarantine Station: The practice of quarantine began during the 14th century in an effort to protect coastal cities from  plague epidemics. Ships arriving in Venice from infected ports were required to sit at anchor for 40 days before offloading on shore. This practice, called quarantine, was derived from the Italian words quaranta giorni which means “forty days”. From the 1830s until 1984, migrant ships arriving in Sydney with suspected contagious disease stopped inside North head and offloaded passengers and crew into quarantine to protect local residents.

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