A Warm Spring Dip in the Middle Harbour – No 23: Edwards (11 November 2012)
Elizabeth 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…
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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…
No 19: Curl Curl Beach – 1 January 2012
Friends came along on New Year’s Day to beach number 19, Curl Curl. Per Wikipedia: The name Curl Curl appears to be the original Aboriginal name for the larger area…
No 18: Cronulla Beach – 18 December 2011
We began our visit to Cronulla at Ham Harry & Mario where we had their breakfast plate: kind of a European deli take on the Australian big breakfast: prosciutto, avocado,…
No 17: Coogee Beach – 20 November 2011
We have visited the 17th beach, Coogee, to officially get the 2011/12 beach going season under way. We’re in the midst of the chaos of moving houses but I thought…
BBQ Brekky, Bowls & Cricket – Not a Beach: 30 October 2011
It began inauspiciously but developed into a nearly perfect Sydney Spring Sunday. Rain was falling at the appointed hour of departure but in the nature of plans made for Sunday…
No 12: Clontarf Beach – 5 February 2011
Per Wikipedia the suburb of Clontarf is named after a district in Dublin, Ireland. But far more interestingly this beach, in 1868, was site of Australia’s first attempted political assassination.…
No 11: Clareville Beach – 30 January 2011
And with No 11: Clareville Beach, enter Mitch with ten more digits. Per Wikipedia the area’s non-indigenous history began with a land grant to Father John Joseph Therry in the…