Marks Point Marina collapse 11/2/2016. The strong tidal current that moves past this iconic Lake Macquarie foreshore building that housed Milano’s Restaurant has undermined the footings and it has collapsed into the water.

Marks Point Marina collapse 11-02-16

Some bad and wet weather frothed up the surf 16th January 2016

Foam on Redhead Beach 16-01-16

Peacefull early morning colours Redhead Beach 22nd January 2016

Redhead Beach pastel colours 22-01-16

A couple of old photos from the 70’s

Pinky at the door 1977. Hard to say who freaked who out here.

Pinky at the door 1977

Surfers at Redhead 1976 – not the best quality image but documents the 70’s surfers image.

Redhead Surfers 1976

Me with motor bikes. Old mid 60’s Bultaco Matador

Geoff old Bultaco Matador 1971

New 1973 6 day trial model Bultaco Matador

Geoff Bultaco Matador 1972

View from SUP Redhead Beach

SUP view Redhead beach

View from SUP Redhead Beach

Surfing at Seal Rocks 1964 – beach site camp site.

Surfing at Seal Rocks 1964

DIvan in Industrial landscape Wickham 1988

Divan and factories Wickham 1988

Sup rider in fog Redhead 11/12/2015

Sup in fog Redhead 11-12-15

The Tardis landed foggy morning Redhead Beach 11/12/2015.

The Tardis landed Redhead 11-12-15

Clouds over Redhead 26/11/2015

Clouds over Redhead 26-11-15

Caution warning Redhead beach 16/11/2015. Caution: alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation.

Caution Redhead Beach 16-11-12

Sea mist Redhead Beach 20/11/2015 Cant see anything else. Early before the start of a red hot day an early cool sea breeze hits the warm land and turns to mist.

Sea Mist Redhead Beach 20-11-15

Sam with a barracuda he caught off the rocks 19/11/2015

Sam Barracuda 19-11-15

Beach animals

Sea Snake on Redhead Beach 25/9/2015

Sea Snake Redhead Beach 25-09-15

Bluebottle washed up on Redhead Beach 19/10/2015. This is one of the longest stingers I have seen.

Redhead Beach Long stinger Bluebottle 19-10-15

Regular fast food garbage in Redhead Beach carpark early Sunday morning. The photo was taken from next to the garbage bin.

Redhead Beach Sunday Morning carpark mess 11-10-15

Blue bottle on Redhead beach 27-09-2015. High winds and rough surf for a week have brought in an early bunch of Bluebottles.

Bluebottle on Redhead beach 27-09-15

Redhead Beach 17/9/2015 early morning shades of grey and green

Redhead Beach Clouds 17-09-15

Redhead Beach Second Creek plant life 11/09/2015

Redhead 2nd Creek Plants 11-09-15

Redhead Beach Second Creek 11/09/2015

Redhead 2nd creek 11-09-15

Pelican totem pole cloudy day Black Neds Bay

Pelican on Pole Black neds Bay

Redhead Beach golden sunrise 5/9/2015

Redhead Beach gold sunrise 05-09-15

Redhead Beach colourful sunrise 31/7/2015

Redhead beach sunrise 31-07-15

Redhead Beach erosion from big seas May 2015

Redhead Beach erosion 15-05-15

Redhead Beach Second Creek green after rain

Redhead 2nd Creek 02-02-13

Redhead Beach a bunch of Bluebottles

Bluebottles Redhead Beach 27-08-14

Redhead Beach 2/8/2015 Technicolour blue sunrise

Redhead Beach technicolour sunrise 02-08-15

Mark Hancock on SUP Redhead September 2013

Mark Hancock SUP Redhead Sep 2013

Colourful Harlequin Beetles Redhead 20/7/2015

Harlequin beetles Redhead 20-07-15

Ted Harvey checking out one of his old boards he rode around 1964, a  classic 10 foot Sam Egan recently restored by Domma shown here with Ted at Pacific Dreams Wood and Glass exhibition in December 2012. Ted’s eyes lit up when Domma brought this one in obviously bringing back fond memories.”Big Ted” past away last Monday 27/7/2015 aged 77. Ted was one of Newcastle’s finest surfers and certainly one of the originals from the 1950’s who surfed with style and grace and loved the big stuff especially Nobbys Reef.

Ted Harvey and Domma 2012

Redhead Beach 08/07/2015.The sun burning a hole in the thick early morning cloud cover.

Redhead Beach sun burst 08-07-14

In 1999 way ahead of time Martin Littlewood of Delta Designs Margaret River dropped back in to show off a range of hand made, hi tech, light and strong epoxy sandwich construction surfcraft.

Martin Delta Designs 2000

Surfer on a big wave at Redhead Beach 1998. The photo is hazy from spray and taken a long way from the wave but worth a look.

Redhead beach big wave 1998

A nice little left early morning Redhead Beach 28/6/2015. A bit of relief from all the heavy days of late.

Nice left Redhead Beach 28-06-15

Black Neds Bay Mangroves 02/07/2015 filtering the sun.

Black Neds Bay Mangroves 02-07-15

Tiny island for pelicans and other sea birds Black Neds Bay 02/07/2015

Black Neds Bay Pelicans 02-07-15

Newcastle Anzac Memorial Walk 21/06/2105. A cliff top walkway overlooking the cliffs north of Bar Beach and with views all over Newcastle.

Newcastle Memorial walk 2 21-06-15

Newcastle Anzac Memorial Walk silhouettes representing those who served.

Newcastle Memorial walk 21-06-15

Another nice morning Redhead Beach 08/06/2015

Redhead Beach sunrise 08-06-15

My son Sam and his mate Pat are having success land base game fishing using their hand made lures.

Sam and Tuna

Sam and Spanish Mackeral 2

The sharks get to a lot of the fish before they can be reeled in.

Sam and shark eaten Tuna

Check the teeth on this denizon of the deep.

Sam and sharp toothed fish

Sam fishing

Redhead Beach Pink morning 25/05/2015

Redhead beach pink morning 25-05-15

Whats on the bottom? Redhead Beach 17/05/2015 after some heavy seas the flotsom washed up has a disturbing amount of plastics in it. Maybe the people of the world need to start recycling more or use better alternate products.

Plastics washed up Redhead Beach 17-05-14

Another huge swell Redhead Beach 02/06/2015

Redhead big surf 02-06-15

The grave of 64th street. In 1964 when I was 14, one of the older Redhead surfers took me surfing to a secret surf spot down a bush track about a kilometer down from Caves Beach they called 64th Street. This was a reef break about 300 metres out and had a left that held up big and frankly scared the hell out of me. Around the late 60s “they” started dumping tons of rocks forming a breakwater out to this reef for some pie in the sky reason. This rock wall never progressed past its initial phase and stands as seen here today burying a once pristine surf spot, 64th Street.

64th street

64th Street’s old take off zone

Sand model on Redhead beach early morning 29/3/2015

Redhead Beach Sand Model 29-03-15

Orange Clouds early morning Redhead Beach 18/03/2015

Redhead Beach orange clouds 18-03-15

Caves Beach from the water 12/3/2015

Caves Beach 12-03-2015

Redhead Beach sunrise 08/3/2015

Redhead Beach Sunrise 08-03-15