With the nearby suburb of Kingston thriving in the late 1800's Blackmans Bay was fairly quiet with only a few Sunday visitors wandering over the sandy track from Kingston to the Blackmans Bay blowhole.
The early settler families combined whaling and farming and had hacked small farms out of the bush. By 1908 many farms had become apricot orchards with owner built shacks appearing in the 1920's that were mostly built out of recycled timber. There were no facilities and the locals had to walk over the hill to Kingston for church, shopping, school and to possibly visit the vet.
It was the late 1970s before the apricot orchards were removed and Blackmans Bay took off as a preferred residential area.

Thanks big dazza for the cache. Logging this was harder than I thought it was going to be but heaps of fun to do.