**(**behind Riverview Inn, 795 Sandy Bay Road).
Charles Darwin hiked up this hill (Porter Hill) in 1836. A large dumping of Permian-aged boulders occurs at the top of Pauldon Drive. The fossil-rich boulders contain (mainly) brachiopods (ancient bivalve shells) and imprints of Bryozoa (ancient moss/lace-like invertebrates a bit like corals), and some (fewer) gastropods (snail shells) and pelecypods (scallop-like shells).
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