All that and a Naked German too – Beach No 29: Flint & Steel (24 November 2013)
Elizabeth If I were ranking the best named beaches Flint & Steel would be near the top. That I can’t find anything explaining the source of that fantastic moniker adds mystery…
A Bush Walk and Apple Strudel (No 28: Flat Rock Beach – 12 May 2013)
Here’s an interesting and unexpected story from Killarney Heights, the suburb where you’ll find Flat Rock Beach: In February 1979, a Lithuanian couple who believed they were being chased by…
Distant Memories of Fishermans Beach (No 27 – 28 April 2013)
These beaches – the ones in this gap, the ones I visited during my old life, I had to wait to do them because I didn’t need anything extra to…
Ice Creams at Fairlight Beach (No 26 – 14 April 2013)
Writing about our visit to Fairlight Beach is an exercise of memory. If I wrote something at the time I’ve lost it and it’s now August 2014. April 2013 feels…
Aeroplanes and Surfing Nippers – Number 25: Eloura Beach (23 March 2013)
Another beach from under the shadows of last year … The best beach day all year, maybe, and here we are nearly to April. It’s already biting hot at 10:30,…
Remote Beauty and Quietude (No 24: Eleanor – 3 February 2013)
It’s time to fill in the gap in this blog. I visited beaches 24 -28, Eleanor to Flat Rock, in late summer/early autumn of 2013. These were to prove the…
A Warm Spring Dip in the Middle Harbour – No 23: Edwards (11 November 2012)
Somehow this beach went missing … even though it was written up and the photos were edited, ah well. Here it is now. It’s funny how a project designed to…
No 22: Delwood Beach – 11 March 2012
I’ve been a bad blogger. Our visit to Delwood Beach not only seems ages ago but was, in fact, ages ago. The couple whose engagement party we attended in Manly…
No 21: Dee Why Beach — 5 February 2012
A more-or-less perfect beach day was predicted for Sunday: mostly sunny and 28 degrees. Although I was spending Thursday and Friday in Canberra at a bicycle tourism conference I put…
No 20: Currawong Beach – 29 January 2012
Leaving home at 10:28am we encounter the first of several instances of good public transport karma the 400 is at the previous stop when we arrive at Burwood Road. We…