Wedding Cake crumbles: Experts say Sydney hotspot that’s a magnet for Instagram influencers could collapse at any moment – and take sightseers with it
- Geotechnical engineers say Wedding Cake Rock could collapse at any moment
- The Instagram-famous sandstone could fall within the next 10 years
- Construction has begun on a new fence to stop people posing on its ledge
A Sydney hotspot that draws thousands of tourists and social media influencers every year could collapse at any moment and fall straight into the sea, experts fear.
The Wedding Cake Rock on the edge of the Royal National Park, south of Sydney, has developed cracks on two sides and could detach from the cliff.
Geotechnical engineers, who conducted a survey in 2015, are expecting this could happen within the next 10 years.
The Wedding Cake Rock (pictured) on the edge of the Royal National Park south of Sydney has developed cracks on both sides and could detach from the cliff in the blink of an eye.
![It draws thousands of tourists and social media influencers every year (stock image a person posing at Wedding Cake Rock)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/06/22/06/15110664-7169225-image-m-7_1561181755471.jpg)
It draws thousands of tourists and social media influencers every year (stock image a person posing at Wedding Cake Rock)
A spokesman for NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service said the Wedding Cake Rock is a high risk location.
‘Wedding Cake Rock is literally a block of rock with a big crack on one side and down the other side, that geotechnical engineers have said would fall into the sea within the next 10 years,’ a spokesperson told Seven News.
‘Geotechnical engineers work in long-time frames, so from them it is just the blink of an eye.’
There is currently a 1.6 metre fence at the site, along with warning signs and the threat of a $3,300 fine.
But this has not stopped the flurry of people clambering the fence to pose for an Instagram picture.
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A spokesman for NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service said the Wedding Cake Rock (pictured) is a high risk location
Now construction has begun on a new fence to stop people posing on its ledge.
It will cost the NSW Government $281,000.
The new fence will be difficult to scale.
A French student died in 2014 when a section of the cliff gave way while a 19-year-old girl fell to her death near the site in 2017.
![Construction has begun on a new fence to stop people posing on its ledge. It will cost the NSW Government $281,000 (stock image of a man posing on the ledge)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/06/22/06/15110658-7169225-image-m-5_1561181708939.jpg)
Construction has begun on a new fence to stop people posing on its ledge. It will cost the NSW Government $281,000 (stock image of a man posing on the ledge)