Boyds Tower looms over the sapphire waters near Eden, a haunting monument to ambition, folly, and the unforgiving power of nature. This is where the Light to Light Walk begins, but it’s also a place steeped in history and tragedy. Built in 1847 by the audacious Benjamin Boyd, the tower was crafted from costly Pyrmont sandstone, a bold and extravagant symbol of his wealth and influence. Boyd dreamed of making it a lighthouse, a beacon of his success—but the government refused, and his fortunes quickly crumbled. Bankrupt and disgraced, Boyd fled to California, abandoning his debts and the workers who built his empire. The tower, left to weather the elements, found a new role as a whale-spotting post for the brutal whaling industry of the 19th and early 20th centuries. By the 1920s, it too had been abandoned, its internal stairs and floors rotting away, leaving only its stone shell to stand against time. Visit Boyds Tower to witness the scars of history etched in its weathered facade—lightning strikes, crumbling masonry, and Boyd’s own name carved into the parapet as a testament to his ill-fated dreams. From this dramatic perch, gaze out at the ocean where migrating whales breach and glide, a stirring contrast to the tower's stormy past.