The beach offers spectacular sunsets, but also provides a moment to pause and reflect on the fate of the first people who lived here. At the time of the British invasion of Tasmania this area was the home of the Pydairrerme, the most southerly group of the Oyster Bay nation. Sealers and whalers brought violence, alcohol and disease and by 1830 the Pydairrerme were no longer in occupation of the peninsula.