Day trips have been few and far between . It’s not like living on the Mornington Peninsula where a short drive will have you at various wineries , tree lined tracks and unspoilt ocean beaches . It’s taken awhile to find things , we know there’s more to come but it takes more effort and planning . When Tim Allen came here I took him for a drive to Palos Verdes . It was Tim’s unfiltered inquisitiveness that helped us discover ” Sunken City “. His ability to strike up a conversation with a complete stranger led us to this little gem . It’s an Australian strength to engage with others without invite . It’s only after living here for a while that this trait starts to erode . Even myself , someone who I always categorised as on the shy side would ask questions of complete strangers . It’s after living here for 20 months you realise that people don’t talk to people they don’t know . It takes time .
After talking to an old war veteran at Point Fermin Park we discovered at his insistence that on the hill behind us exists an underground Nike . He tells us that few people know that an underground missile launcher is hidden in the hillside of San Pedro . He swears on his life that he has seen it rise out of the green grass with giant missile pointed to the Pacific Ocean .He tells us he saw it in the early 60s . Wether it’s still there who knows but I believed him . 
He also points us to a broken fence line that struts out onto open cliff face . If we trespass the fence line we will find ‘Sunken City ‘. It doesn’t take long before Tim and I are under the fence and in an area closed off to the public . 
It’s here housing and structures slipped into the sea in 1929 . It’s deemed unstable and closed off to the public but it hasn’t stopped kids from adding graffiti over the old deteriorated concrete buildings . The graffiti has made this a cool modern art location sitting on cliffs at the foot of Long Beach . 
The irony is that this prohibited area is now a tourist location and authorities seem to turn a blind eye to the many who come down here to take photographs and add graffiti. Days later Tim , Emma , myself and Leroy had to come back to capture some pictures . It’s a pretty cool little discovery .
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