Nobbys Beach Newcastle

The final cut

Regardless of winter chills, rain and tempest this maiden was photographed.

Same as yesterday from another angle and an hour or two earlier.

'Dad's army' and dog watch at the doorway.

This morning I was on a cruise shadowed by a pirate ship ....

Just joking!

Thanks Blogger/Google techies. Glad Friday 13th is over? 

Surprised at seeing these jaunty birds near Nobbys beach I have recorded the sighting. Usually the scene is dominated by sea gulls. These birds are probably Sooty Oystercatchers It takes a whole life time to spy some commonplace wild life even when these birds are supposed to be distributed over our entire coastline.

Nobbys beach had a few bigger waves today.
Life guards and surfer in an incident. The surf board snapped in half.

Here is the board in two pieces.

That was enough! Blue flag was taken down and and replaced by red flag, dangerous surf, although there's no obvious information about what the colours indicate.

Skandi Bergen has a new sign on the bow: Customs and Border Control.
Red yes, but no bleeding heart!

May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.......a saying from the Irish pub, The Northern Star.

Last Sunday, before rain set in. Rain... rain.... rainy days are nice.

July is the coldest month. Yesterday was unusually mild, 22C, sunny and very windy. The seaside wasn't crowded but some kite flyers and a surfer were in action at sunset.

Pasha Bulker memorial.
The word Pasha is an important title used around the areas of Turkey and Egypt. It also appears to be associated with the names Pavel or Paul which, just to be quirky, mean small or humble.

This red work of art has a very narrow beam heave-to behind a commonplace metal barrier, while on port side is a 'no parking' sign and a submerged metal slab forms a very solid obstacle for any sailors on deck without their sea-legs, not that pedestrians need be shelted from all risk, yet the setting could be a little more spacious and see worthy. This ingrate should walk the plank.

Early watercolour: Entrance to Newcastle Harbour by Frank McNamara.
Original was in the possession of the then National Art Gallery of NSW.

Almost the same view as the Pasha Bulker went aground in 2007 with rescue of the crew in progress.
Is it possible that the crew and others were put in more danger by the rescue than if they had remained on board until the storm abated?
Pasha Bulker memorial. The dark coloured 'plate' is from the actual ship.

Nobbys Beach.

Today: Sign in a clinic :

DOCTORS
DON'T FORGET!
INTERESTING PATIENT'S

What do they have in mind? Also, misuse of the Apostrophe is not unknown and comment about this is seen in the columns of the Sydney Morning Herald and strange examples make their way into collections.
I'd be the first to admit to my uncertainty about both punctuation and expression but while I am locked in this 'zone of proximal development' (Vygotsky) and in haphazardness, I notice more points now about the written word. I believe the apostrophe is omitted from place names, for example, Nobbys Beach.

Ship ahoy and ahull.

Aboriginal mythology is incredibly old and an Awabakal Dreaming Story reveals that (the landmark) Nobbys is a site of unrest.
A banished Kangaroo hides at Nobbys and when he gets upset and restless the rocks fall and the ground trembles. "The Awabakal people believe this is what causes an earthquake."
A series of Dreaming stories has been recorded about Muloobinba, the place of the sea ferns, now called Newcastle and are published in print and on CD by Aborigianl Multimedia Productions 2001.

The shared path to Nobbys is seen in use and has a turning circle at this end.
Nearby, the road to Horseshoe Beach is a parking ground for commuters and buses. The parking seems unrestricted.
Locals enjoy the simple pleasure of going to Horseshoe with their dogs or horses or to picnic on the greens. Parking will be impossible if the entire area becomes a parking lot for workers or utilities and services or for others.
Once again, with a post like this I am not into popularism. That is, if popularism (a kind of kowtowing to popular opinion) is the correct word as it is not in the Macquarie Dictionary while kowtowing is an entry!
PS It has since been discovered that the word populism does appear in a supplementary list in the Macquarie.

Nobbys again in winter light.
The extra warmth of woolen clothing can only be tolerated on a few days of the year and this is one of them, ugh!