Walking around the beautiful Lake Macquarie during 2023-2025 with a variety of day walks, and as close to the foreshore as possible. I walked two directions: Swansea to Wangi going south and around, and Pelican to Wangi going north and around. Click here for a brief reflection (2 pages)
Swansea area and through to Nords Wharf 2023 and 2024
Above, the Channel Side through to the Swansea bridge and RSL, and Mr Bojangles’ Coffee Van at Thomas Humphreys Reserve on Swansea Channel – excellent piccolos (though the little van is now located at the Museum of Art and Culture yapang, Booragul); and immediately below, the ubiquitous pelican.
Swansea RSL: ANZAC Dawn Service: 2023, 2024, 2025
Swansea Lake Macquarie on Lake side and Swansea Bay Beach starting from the end of Lake Road
Galgabba Point, Swansea
13 November 2023
Galgabba Point, Swansea
14 April and 9 May 2024
Swansea to Murrays Beach, Cams Wharf and Nords Wharf
Re-walked 1 October 2024
Nords Wharf to Gwandalan area and Crangan Bay
5 December 2023
Gwandalan and Summerland Point
First walk around Kanagra Drive through to Gwandalan: 12 December 2023. Second walk starting Around Garema Road, near the Lakeside Lodge, formerly Gwanda Bay Manor: 17 March 2025
Chain Valley Bay
Around to Kingfisher Shores, via Karignan Creek Bridge: 12 December 2023 and 5 August 2024
Mannering Park and around to Wyee Point
19 August 2024
From Mannering Park, along Ruttleys Road, to Wyee Point: 19 August 2024
Morisett, Morisett Park (and Trinity Point)
24 December 2024
Brightwaters (and Windermere Park)
24 December 2024
Mirrabooka (and Balgonnia)
24 December 2024
Sunshine
Concluding Sunshine Baths Reserve: 24 December 2024
From Sunshine, through Silverwater, Yarawonga Park and Bonnells Bay
3 January 2025
Silverwater
Balcolyn
Yarrawonga Park
Bonnells Bay
(To) Dora Creek (3 January 2025) and then around Dora Creek (8 January 2025)
South Side od Dora Creek and Railway Bridge
North Side and Eraring Outlet area
Eraring, Myuna Bay into Wangi Wangi
Dora Creek start and Eraring Outlet connection: 18 February 2025
Eraring Outlet Canal Area
Through Myuna Bay into Wangi, via Beach Road
Into Wangi and around the beach (es) side, including Main Beach and Pebbly Beach and through Dobell Memorial Park: 26 August 2025
Around Wangi Ridge Reserve, including the Wangi Wangi Gun Emplacement and Command Post area from WWII: 26 August 2025
Into Wangi: from Arcadia Vale and through Wangi on the left side, and to the start of Lake Macquarie State Conservation Area
18 March 2025
Dobell House (built 1925) and surroundings
Wangi Wangi Circuit Track and Peninsula: 14 July 2025
Wangi Wangi on the south side Dobell Drive
Rathmines and Fishing Point (from end of Kilaben Bay): 10 December 2024
Coal Point and Kilaben Bay: 22 October 2024. Start: Fassifern Station, through Toronto and Carey Bay
The old railway line area through to Toronto – along Greenway Pathway
From Toronto, through Carey Bay and Coal Bay
Down to Biraban Reserve, site of the Ebezener Coal Mine.
‘Maximus Park’ at South Street Park, Kilaben Bay, heading around to the Kilaben Bay Landcare area.
Blackalls Park and Toronto (via Fassifern)
Old Toronto Railway Line and Station, and Canal area: 10 June 2024
Fennell Bay and Bolton Point (via Fassifern)
On way to Fennell Bay, around Fassifern Road and Bridge Street: 8 July 2024
Around Bolton Point
Marmong Point: 8 July 2024
Teralba: 8 July 2024
Speers Point, Warners Bay and the Esplanade through to Eleebana
Warners Bay esplanade around to Eleebana: 19 July 2023
Green Point Reserve
19 June 2024 and 25 June 2025
Belmont
South Belmont to Marks Point, including around Belmont Lakeside Holiday Park: 28 July 2025
Marks Point
Naru Beach, between Pelican and Marks Point
Pelican
To end of Pelican and border with Belmont Airport: 5 May 2025
Little Pelican and Swansea
Across Swansea Channel and Thomas Humphreys Reserve: 16 August 2023
Swansea entrance sign just past Blacksmiths, and the view from the entrance of Black Neds Bay looking to the RSL and Swansea Bridge, through the Swansea Channel.
Archival Website for Peter Bentley 