Having just walked up to the Barrenjoey Lighthouse it was time for a more relaxing stroll along Palm Beach, or Palmy, the most northern of Sydney’s north shore beaches. Continue reading “Palm Beach – Sydney’s Most Northern Beach”
Barrenjoey Lighthouse & Its Luckless Early Keepers
At the northern end of the Pittwater Peninsula, Barrenjoey Headland commands the entrance to Broken Bay, the Hawkesbury River and The Pittwater. Throughout the 19th century The Pittwater (see my separate review) was an important shipping route giving access to Sydney, used by legitimate traders and smugglers alike. It also provided temporary safe anchorage for passing ships seeking to escape a storm. Safe access to it from the ocean was an imperative. Continue reading “Barrenjoey Lighthouse & Its Luckless Early Keepers”
Pittwater And Barrenjoey Beach
While I had heard of The Pittwater I actually visited the northernmost part of Sydney’s Northern Beaches Council Area to see Palm Beach and the Barrenjoey Lighthouse and because the Lighthouse was to be the starting point for my coastal walk from here, the most northerly point of Greater Sydney, to Cronulla Beach, some 100kms south and the city’s most southerly beach. The full walk will be done over an unspecified period of time! Continue reading “Pittwater And Barrenjoey Beach”
Bacino Kiosk – Chowder Bay: Coffee With A View
Having completed the lovely Bradleys Head to Chowder Bay walk at Clifton Gardens and its pleasant little beach in Chowder Bay, about 45 minutes before the hourly bus was due leave for our return trip to the city centre, a coffee and mid morning snack were required. Continue reading “Bacino Kiosk – Chowder Bay: Coffee With A View”
Beaches and Swimming on Ascension Island
Ascension Island is blessed with 32 stunningly beautiful white sand beaches lapped by warm tropical water. These beaches are as beautiful as you will find anywhere in the world. Continue reading “Beaches and Swimming on Ascension Island”
Ireland’s Capital of Fun
……or, a day at the beach.
Looking at pictures of an empty beach and dejected looking funfair rides, my Reader might be forgiven for wondering why I have chosen the title I have for this review. I would have expected a similar reaction had I entitled this review ‘Ireland’s Premiere Seaside Resort’. Both terms are taken from the town’s tourist literature. Continue reading “Ireland’s Capital of Fun”
A Postcard From The South Pacific
This is the stuff that picture postcards from the South Pacific are made off.
Kuto is a crescent shaped, white powder sand, beach over a kilometre in length. It is lapped by the warm, transparent and turquoise waters of the South Pacific and flanked by swaying palms, and many of the island’s endemic columnar pines, providing ample shade between swims, sun bathing or strolls along the beach. If you are into beaches, what more could you possibly need? Continue reading “A Postcard From The South Pacific”
Kanumera Bay – Stunning
Having completed a 2 hour island tour there was still more than sufficient time for a walk along a significant part of Kanumera Bay which, if forced to pick a favourite between it and Kuto Beach, I would rate it higher – because, at least when I visited, it was less busy and there was more shade, from a combination of palms and the Auracaria columnaris pines from which the island takes its name, for those wishing to linger. Additionally, I found the Bay to be a lot more photogenic and I trust I have managed to capture some of its beauty in the images attached. Continue reading “Kanumera Bay – Stunning”
A Quiet Alternative To Kuto Bay
While I rate Maurice Bay as a must visit for its statue of Christ (dedicated to St Maurice) which is surrounded by a most stunning palisade of carved totem poles, the beach here is one of many beautiful beaches on the Ile des Pins and worthy a look in its own right. Continue reading “A Quiet Alternative To Kuto Bay”
More Than Sand, Sun And Sea
The Ile des Pins, Nourea, is rightly famous for its spectacular bays, reefs and beaches and to access two of the best of these, Kuto Beach and Kanumera Bay, the visitor arriving by ferry from Noumea or on a cruise ship, as I did, need do no more than walk a few hundred metres either side of where you come ashore. Continue reading “More Than Sand, Sun And Sea”
The Rambling Wombat 