Day 2 // Stockton Beach, Gloomy Twilight

January 2 // 2011

 

After a hot and sunny New Year's Day, the following day turned overcast and positively gloomy - perhaps not quite as bleak as this shot would suggest but after a brilliant start to the year, this is how we felt as the light disapeard and the wind picked up. Still, many, many worse places to be on a short break.

 

Stockton Beach (from Wikipedia)

 

Stockton Beach, on the Tasman Sea, starts on the northern side of the break wall that protects the entrance to Newcastle harbour in Stockton, Newcastle's northern most suburb, and stretches for 32 km (20 mi) in an approximate north-easterly direction to Anna Bay in Port Stephens. In some areas it is as much as 1 km (0.6 mi) wide and has sand dunes over 30 metres (98 ft) high although at the Stockton end it is at its narrowest with no dunes. Each year the dunes move north by approximately 4 m (13 ft). The sand on Stockton Beach varies from hard to soft packed and changes daily with the changing winds and weather

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