Is this heaven? No, it’s Bundeena – No 38 Horderns (21 December 2014)
Elizabeth This summer’s beaches have created challenges. I should have begun with No 35 Gunyah (Brooklyn) – up on the Hawkesbury – but it can only be reached from the water…
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I Think You Must Leave Australia to Become Fully Australian – No 36 Gunyah (Bundeena) 23 November
It’s late November and this is only the first beach of the summer. I’ve been delayed by the hopes of sticking to my rule of visiting the beaches in strictly…
No 34: Great Mackerel – 22 June 2014
On Friday I woke to a radio program about ceremonies people create for themselves. A caller described a women’s winter solstice ceremony she had been conducting for some years. The…
No 33: Grand Flaneur – 9 February 2014
I have been looking forward to this: the westernmost beach in Sydney. Grand Flaneur Beach is on Chipping Norton Lake in Liverpool. This would be different. The day is hot…
No 32: Gibson’s Beach – 2 February 2014
Living in Sydney brings joy to my life. Even when all else is shit, when plans fail, promises are broken and my mood is sour to see Sydney Harbour, the…
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…
All that and a Naked German too – Beach No 29: Flint & Steel (24 November 2013)
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…