Beach No 49: Manly – 10 December 2017
Elizabeth Summer has arrived and the beaches beckon. It’s a gorgeous, golden, shimmering day. There’s heat in the sun and cool in the shade. It feels, as it should, like early…
Manly
No 31: Freshwater Beach – 5 January 2014
I would have posted Freshwater sooner but I got distracted by Duke Kahanamoku. Kahanamoku, a native-Hawaiian, Olympic swimming champion and sometime-movie star, is credited with introducing board surfing to Australia.…
No 30: Forty Baskets Beach – 28 December 2013
I’ve been to the beaches but not blogged about them. It’s been quite a year for me. Sundays the Beach was our project and now it is my project. Change…
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…
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 15: Collins Beach – 5 March 2011
Collins Beach is in the Sydney Harbour National Park in Manly. It’s a beach that seems like it should be quieter and more obscure than it is. You have to…