SEAL Rocks local Neil Brown believes the group of fishermen washed into the sea at Seal Rocks put themselves in grave danger by abseiling onto a remote ledge.
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Mr Brown has lived at Seal Rocks for about 30 years and says the group of visitors, believed to be from Goulburn, were renting a house in the area.
The area they went to fish is between Boat Beach and the Seal Rocks Lighthouse (Sugarloaf Lighthouse pictured here). There is a track there called Clay Track used by local fishermen but the visitors ventured further east of this track and abseiled down a steep cliff face to fish on a ledge.
"When the wave came they would have had nowhere to go," Mr Brown said.
He said there were huge swells yesterday (and they are predicted to continue today and tomorrow) and that waves in that area can go as high as 10 metres up the cliff face.
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