No 12: Clontarf Beach – 5 February 2011
Elizabeth 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.…
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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…
No 10: Chinaman’s Beach – 1 January 2011
Yes, that’s right: Chinaman’s Beach. It’s on the Middle Harbour in Mosman. The name comes from the Chinese market gardens which operated in the area beginning 120 years ago —…
No 9: Bungan Beach – 21 November 2010
First beach of the “summer” — sunny and pretty warm but with a bite in the wind that sometimes whipped up sand. I decided this season that our visits should…