This is another pic of the walk from Moonraker Way to Split Apple Rock beach. I can’t help but think the guy who named Moonraker Way must’ve been a huge James Bond fan. Or was he a Wiltshireman? An old story goes that revenue collectors caught some Wiltshiremen raking a pond to retrieve kegs of contraband brandy. The Wiltshiremen claimed they were “raking out the moon”, hoping that their apparent madness would get them out of the scrap they were in, earning them the name “moonrakers”. I’m pretty sure, though, that the name is a sailing reference, for the moonraker sail found on square-rigged ships.
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