<guide><header id="1" name="Mersey Bluff" walk="5-10 min" sun="Most of the day" rock="Vertical dolerite" acknowledgement="By Ben Thorpe" intro="The Mersey Bluff offers a nice selection of easy to moderate problems in pleasant surroundings.  It’s never going to be a destination area but it is worth a visit if you’re in the area. The dolerite is quite featured with edges, under-clings and side-pulls and the terrain is mostly vertical.  The following is just a small selection of the climbing here – the stuff that fits easily into the genre of bouldering.   There are a lot more very easy problems that can be done as well as some top-rope routes (look out for the bolts).  Some of the problems on the lower levels are affected by tide and swell so a low-tide visit is best to get the most out of the area." access="Park in the lighthouse carpark.  The lookout is easy to locate.  For the other areas, head down to the west of the lighthouse past the memorial to Luke Jacobs (a local killed in a diving accident), a track leads down through the bush to the cliffs.  Jarv’s Table is the first boulder you will come to.  Keep on walking round to the west to access the other areas.  The Lift Shaft area is a little obscure, keep on going till almost round to the beach on the west side.  "/><text id="2" class="heading3">Below the Lookout – Upper Tier</text><text id="3">The first problems described are on two tiers directly below the lookout.  To the east of the light house there is also a good traversing wall on the other side of the blowhole (pretty obvious when you’re there).</text><problem id="4" number="1." grade="V0" extra="(Stand)">Straight up the right arête to the lookout.  Careful on the top.</problem><problem id="5" number="2." stars="*" grade="V3" extra="(SDS)">Sit start under the boulder and then lurch up under the arête.</problem><text id="6" class="heading3">Below the Lookout – Lower Tier</text><problem id="7" number="1." grade="V1" extra="(Stand)">Straight up the face.</problem><problem id="8" number="2." grade="V0" extra="(Stand)">Easily up the corner.</problem><problem id="9" number="3." stars="**" name="Back in Town" grade="V3" extra="(Stand)">Power up off the big undercling heading for the flat topped hold in the black rock.</problem><problem id="10" number="4." stars="*" grade="V4" extra="(Stand)">Climb straight up the arête to a balancy and high top-out</problem></guide>