Second Point

Morning walk at Macmasters Beach through to Little Beach and back. This is the second point of Cape Three Points in the Bouddi National Park.

Cliff views 

from Second point looking north to Macmasters Beach and Copacabana. 

Little Beach 

White-cheeked Honeyeater 

New Holland Honeyeater 

Eastern Spinebill 

Yellow-faced Honeyeater 

Little Wattlebird 

Bar Beach to Nobby's

Birthday lunch in Newcastle with my daughter then a late afternoon walk from Bar Beach to Nobby's Head.

Looking down on Bar Beach. Not much beach left on a big sea day.

Looking up to Shepherds Hill 

looking south over Bar Beach from the new Anzac Memorial Walk

The Anzac Memorial Walkway 

Shepherds Hill Trig and the view over Newcastle and the Hunter

Newcastle Beach and Baths from King Edward Park 

As close as I could get to the Bogey Hole without getting wet. 

Newcastle Baths 

North from the Baths to Nobby's 

Sunset over Stockton 

Fort Scratchley  and Nobby's Beach

Nobby's Head and the lighthouse in the gloaming. 

back around Newcastle Baths 

Newcastle at night 

Snake Island

I always thought that Snake Island in Mooney Mooney Creek with Cheero Point pointing to it like a finger would make a great photo.  To get the right angle though is a little bit tricky. Possibly the best viewpoint for this would be from Jolls Bridge on the M1 expressway, but stopping there would be foolhardy. 

Wandering down one of the powerline firetrails and then heading off along a ridge over Cheero Point did give me some nice photos.

The Hawkesbury Railway Bridge 

Looking back at Jolls Bridge on the M1 

White-eared Honeyeater 

Rainbow Lorikeet 

Lapstone Zig Zag

Lapstone Zig Zag was the original railway built to the Blue Mountains. After driving down Mitchells Pass where I stopped for a coffee at Lennox Bridge, I parked at the bottom and walked up the old railway/road and across the knapsack Gully viaduct and through the railway cuttings of the Zig Zag railway. With a bit of toing and froing and crossing underneath the expressway to Lapstone  was 5klm all up.

After crossing the Knapsack Gully Viaduct there are tracks down into the gully to get better views of the bridge.

Then a steep climb up to Siding Lookout for views over the viaduct and across the Cumberland Plain of greater Sydney. 

Through the railway cuttings 

Old Lucasville Station siding