During the past 20 years while looking for surf, I had climbed over much of Big Rock and knew of a strange hole-like structure at the very end and also a large hollow opening on the Ocean View side of the Rock. I was convinced that one of these must be the cave that Baxter spoke of and yet when I spoke to Tommy Thompson, there was a third opening that was less obvious and was indeed the cave that Baxter spoke of. On the other side behind a flax bush is an opening that leads to a small cave just large enough for an adult to crouch in. It provides a perfect view out over Brighton Bay and yet conceals the occupant. It appeared so hidden that Baxter could well have been the last person to reside inside, and yet I visited this cave twice and between the two visits there had been another occupier. For strewn there, near the back of the passage was the evidence of another juvenile user: a bunch of burnt matches and a cigarette packet. It was a very small space and very difficult to take photographs in as I could only guess at the image the camera saw. Compared to the bright daylight on beach there was little light inside and I used a small flash to bounce light off the back of the cave and give some illumination to the entrance. 

I climbed up to a hole in a bank in a hill above the sea, and there fell into the attitude of listening out of which poems may arise....

The whole weight of the hill hung over me.
Gladly I would have stayed there and been hidden
From every beast that moves beneath the sun,

A kind of a cave - still on the brandy,
and coming in from outside,