Newcastle Ocean Baths

Newcastle, NSW, Australia

 

Arrived here about 4am where a bunch of teenagers were swimming without any cloths on. It would have been about 4 degrees. In my thermals and gloves, I was freezing... They seem to be having fun so...

 

First time at this location. The pictures I've seen here are different to what it's like now. That grandstand(quite ugly really) that curves around the back of the pool and acts as a barrier wasn't in most of the pictures I've seen.

I had in mind coming here to take a low shot with my telephoto lens of the 1-6 lane markings out towards the ocean and sunrise but.. that stand prevented this.

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Correction. I thought this was the Merewether Baths. To my big surprise there's 2 baths along this road in this area:p

Thanks to Archie, owner of a fantastic photostream (www.flickr.com/photos/madarchie0/) for sending me a polite, courteous, discrete ah hum email to let me know :) Appreciated it.

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Lines lines and more lines. Had some trouble stitching this one. I spent too much time between shots due to a massive wave coming through and killing my reflection. It didn't want to match up trying to join it so I had to combine other shots into it till it was happy. The shots with the waves streaking across turned out quite well but it wasn't as good as the reflection come panoramic time... Then came the duty of straightening it all out. Almost gave up on this one.

6 Pictures, 5 exposures each.

Done