Good Beaches?
Jun 5th 2003, 1:50 am
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Good Beaches?
This has to be wrong the UK has beaches ,well I never?
A record number of UK beaches have been awarded Blue Flags for cleanliness.
The European award for well-managed beaches has been given to 105 beaches this year - almost twice as many as in 2000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2964382.stm
A record number of UK beaches have been awarded Blue Flags for cleanliness.
The European award for well-managed beaches has been given to 105 beaches this year - almost twice as many as in 2000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2964382.stm
Jun 5th 2003, 5:02 am
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Re: Good Beaches?
Originally posted by pommie bastard
This has to be wrong the UK has beaches ,well I never?
A record number of UK beaches have been awarded Blue Flags for cleanliness.
The European award for well-managed beaches has been given to 105 beaches this year - almost twice as many as in 2000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2964382.stm
This has to be wrong the UK has beaches ,well I never?
A record number of UK beaches have been awarded Blue Flags for cleanliness.
The European award for well-managed beaches has been given to 105 beaches this year - almost twice as many as in 2000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2964382.stm
Cymru am Byth
Jun 5th 2003, 5:05 am
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Re: Good Beaches?
Originally posted by Ceri
Shhh! don't tell everybody - what are you trying to do?? ruin the rest of the UK. We all know every beach in the UK look likes Blackpool, all beaches are crowded (everywhere is crowded in the UK - don't go there please - it's all like the SE) - keep everyone on the beaches in the the SE for gawds sake.
Cymru am Byth
Shhh! don't tell everybody - what are you trying to do?? ruin the rest of the UK. We all know every beach in the UK look likes Blackpool, all beaches are crowded (everywhere is crowded in the UK - don't go there please - it's all like the SE) - keep everyone on the beaches in the the SE for gawds sake.
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Jun 5th 2003, 7:50 am
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Camber sands has a great beach (e.sussex). It gets too busy for me in the summer (not really a sunbathey, lounge around on it, type beach person anyway), but is great to walk along in the winter.
Best beaches ive ever been to in the uk were those either in cumbria or south wales....the ones around st davids head are really good.
Best beach i've ever been too......without shadow of a doubt, the coorong in SA, closly followed by cape banks, also in SA.
Pete.
Best beaches ive ever been to in the uk were those either in cumbria or south wales....the ones around st davids head are really good.
Best beach i've ever been too......without shadow of a doubt, the coorong in SA, closly followed by cape banks, also in SA.
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Jun 5th 2003, 9:06 am
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yes we have some lovley beaches in Uk, especially in cornwall, devon, but no matter how hot it is the waters freezing and guess what no fish! apart from cod! not really a snorklers/divers paradise! now the indian ocean, the barrier reef etc, may have its dangers, but what an experience!
ellen
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Jun 5th 2003, 11:15 am
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Originally posted by PeteY
Camber sands has a great beach (e.sussex). It gets too busy for me in the summer (not really a sunbathey, lounge around on it, type beach person anyway), but is great to walk along in the winter.
Best beaches ive ever been to in the uk were those either in cumbria or south wales....the ones around st davids head are really good.
Best beach i've ever been too......without shadow of a doubt, the coorong in SA, closly followed by cape banks, also in SA.
Pete.
Camber sands has a great beach (e.sussex). It gets too busy for me in the summer (not really a sunbathey, lounge around on it, type beach person anyway), but is great to walk along in the winter.
Best beaches ive ever been to in the uk were those either in cumbria or south wales....the ones around st davids head are really good.
Best beach i've ever been too......without shadow of a doubt, the coorong in SA, closly followed by cape banks, also in SA.
Pete.
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Jun 5th 2003, 11:30 am
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Originally posted by mr mover
yes pete ,you are totally correct , but we here in S.A,a have spent years trying to keep these secrect, and you have spilled the beans ,,have you seen PONDALOWIE OR KEMP BAYS ,at the bottom of yorke peninsula . 100yards off the beach with a snorkle , you can pick up 1/2kilo crays , and cooked on the beach, you hav,nt lived.................... MM
yes pete ,you are totally correct , but we here in S.A,a have spent years trying to keep these secrect, and you have spilled the beans ,,have you seen PONDALOWIE OR KEMP BAYS ,at the bottom of yorke peninsula . 100yards off the beach with a snorkle , you can pick up 1/2kilo crays , and cooked on the beach, you hav,nt lived....................
MM
My in-laws own a beach shack at gerloff bay near Carpenter rocks. That bay has an ok beach, but the snorkling is out of this world. Abalone and crays everywhere!!! We cook em in the shak tho
Only problem is the stingrays in december/january, they use the bay to meet up before moving offshore to breed. Although they ar'nt agressive, things can get a bit err...interesting when u are snorkling and scrabbling around on the bottom, turn to surface and see 15 odd rays cruising above you !!!I'll never forget standing in the shallows washing my mask out while the wife started snorkling out. I looked up and saw a HUGE dark shape heading her way (looked at least 5 foot wingspan). I called out a few times but she did'nt hear me. they must have got to within a metre before Susan saw it. The next thing i knew she had stopped dead, did a few little mad flippy things turned around and scarpered quicker than ive ever seen her wim before! The ray, completly unphased just carried on as if nothing had happened.
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Jun 5th 2003, 11:43 am
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loved your story
i went to the maldives (indian ocean) last year (honeymoon), i had never been snorkiling in my life, my new husband persuaded me to try and oh my god i got hooked, it was the most wonderful experience of my life (except for kids, wedding and getting a degree this year, but you know what i mean!) one day i was minding my own buisness snorkling over a coral reef, when i literaly came face to face with a moiry eel the size of a house (well, it was big) as i scuttled away a 3 foot reef shark popped out beind a rock, i didn't know which way to turn!
but it didn't put me off, and needless to say and to my new husbands disappointment i spent more time in the sea bed than the honey moon bed!
bring on perth and the barrier reef, my snorkles ready and waiting!!
ellen
i went to the maldives (indian ocean) last year (honeymoon), i had never been snorkiling in my life, my new husband persuaded me to try and oh my god i got hooked, it was the most wonderful experience of my life (except for kids, wedding and getting a degree this year, but you know what i mean!) one day i was minding my own buisness snorkling over a coral reef, when i literaly came face to face with a moiry eel the size of a house (well, it was big) as i scuttled away a 3 foot reef shark popped out beind a rock, i didn't know which way to turn!
but it didn't put me off, and needless to say and to my new husbands disappointment i spent more time in the sea bed than the honey moon bed!
bring on perth and the barrier reef, my snorkles ready and waiting!!
ellen
Jun 5th 2003, 11:50 am
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Originally posted by mr mover
yes pete ,you are totally correct , but we here in S.A,a have spent years trying to keep these secrect, and you have spilled the beans ,,have you seen PONDALOWIE OR KEMP BAYS ,at the bottom of yorke peninsula . 100yards off the beach with a snorkle , you can pick up 1/2kilo crays , and cooked on the beach, you hav,nt lived.................... MM
yes pete ,you are totally correct , but we here in S.A,a have spent years trying to keep these secrect, and you have spilled the beans ,,have you seen PONDALOWIE OR KEMP BAYS ,at the bottom of yorke peninsula . 100yards off the beach with a snorkle , you can pick up 1/2kilo crays , and cooked on the beach, you hav,nt lived....................
MM
You ever snorkled at port noarlunga?
Gets pretty busy being so clode to adelaide, but the reef running parallel to the beach is great.
Jun 5th 2003, 5:12 pm
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Originally posted by PeteY
MM,
You ever snorkled at port noarlunga?
Gets pretty busy being so clode to adelaide, but the reef running parallel to the beach is great.
MM,
You ever snorkled at port noarlunga?
Gets pretty busy being so clode to adelaide, but the reef running parallel to the beach is great.
MM
Jun 5th 2003, 11:57 pm
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Originally posted by ellen1
yes we have some lovley beaches in Uk, especially in cornwall, devon, but no matter how hot it is the waters freezing and guess what no fish! apart from cod! not really a snorklers/divers paradise! now the indian ocean, the barrier reef etc, may have its dangers, but what an experience!
ellen
yes we have some lovley beaches in Uk, especially in cornwall, devon, but no matter how hot it is the waters freezing and guess what no fish! apart from cod! not really a snorklers/divers paradise! now the indian ocean, the barrier reef etc, may have its dangers, but what an experience!
ellen
Try South Wales the waters very livable warmed by the Gulf Stream , you have lived in the Midlands far too long.
By the way you will get bored of beach life very quick in Perth less than 5% of the population bother, watch out for sharks.
Read your big ideas about opening a cafe in Perth good luck the Asians will have you out of business in less than a year.
Forget the East Coast if you live in Perth costs an arm and a leg to fly there.
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Jun 6th 2003, 4:14 am
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Originally posted by ellen1
loved your story
i went to the maldives (indian ocean) last year (honeymoon), i had never been snorkiling in my life, my new husband persuaded me to try and oh my god i got hooked, it was the most wonderful experience of my life (except for kids, wedding and getting a degree this year, but you know what i mean!) one day i was minding my own buisness snorkling over a coral reef, when i literaly came face to face with a moiry eel the size of a house (well, it was big) as i scuttled away a 3 foot reef shark popped out beind a rock, i didn't know which way to turn!
but it didn't put me off, and needless to say and to my new husbands disappointment i spent more time in the sea bed than the honey moon bed!
bring on perth and the barrier reef, my snorkles ready and waiting!!
ellen
loved your story
i went to the maldives (indian ocean) last year (honeymoon), i had never been snorkiling in my life, my new husband persuaded me to try and oh my god i got hooked, it was the most wonderful experience of my life (except for kids, wedding and getting a degree this year, but you know what i mean!) one day i was minding my own buisness snorkling over a coral reef, when i literaly came face to face with a moiry eel the size of a house (well, it was big) as i scuttled away a 3 foot reef shark popped out beind a rock, i didn't know which way to turn!
but it didn't put me off, and needless to say and to my new husbands disappointment i spent more time in the sea bed than the honey moon bed!
bring on perth and the barrier reef, my snorkles ready and waiting!!
ellen
Agree about the cold of the water in the UK, but not about the total lack of fish, my friend back in the Uk who emails me his "catches" - have caught some beatuies recently, Tope (shark)and sea bass.
Aus is very good for diving and such Wobbegongs (carpet shark) and stripies are very common on Straddie in the shallows (waist deep)
What is also good here in Aus - is to set up a big saltwater tank (I've got a 6 foot tank)and collect fish from the sea - I've had in mine; Bream, Flathead, blue stingray, Trumpeters, stripey's, (catch them in a cast net mostly - and some by hook) - puffer fish! (told hubby to get that back out! ugly thing - puffer not hubby
) P.s link for some of the fishes/sea life in Britain which is quite interesting reading -
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homep...hortfin%20Mako
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Jun 6th 2003, 7:19 am
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Re: Good Beaches?
Originally posted by pommie bastard
This has to be wrong the UK has beaches ,well I never?
A record number of UK beaches have been awarded Blue Flags for cleanliness.
The European award for well-managed beaches has been given to 105 beaches this year - almost twice as many as in 2000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2964382.stm
This has to be wrong the UK has beaches ,well I never?
A record number of UK beaches have been awarded Blue Flags for cleanliness.
The European award for well-managed beaches has been given to 105 beaches this year - almost twice as many as in 2000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2964382.stm
MM
Jun 6th 2003, 7:22 am
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Re: Good Beaches?
Originally posted by mr mover
whats the black stuff at the edge of the water,? a recently arrived spanish oil slick??.... MM
whats the black stuff at the edge of the water,? a recently arrived spanish oil slick??....
MM
You enjoying the nuclear waste land that is SA? sorry nuclear dustbin.
I would take me chances with an oil slick that breaks down this never will?
http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~peterson/SAnucleardump.html
PS seems you need more Poms , sorry you are a soiled one?
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/...700340778.html
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Jun 6th 2003, 10:29 am
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Originally posted by pommie bastard
Try South Wales the waters very livable warmed by the Gulf Stream , you have lived in the Midlands far too long.
By the way you will get bored of beach life very quick in Perth less than 5% of the population bother, watch out for sharks.
Read your big ideas about opening a cafe in Perth good luck the Asians will have you out of business in less than a year.
Forget the East Coast if you live in Perth costs an arm and a leg to fly there.
Try South Wales the waters very livable warmed by the Gulf Stream , you have lived in the Midlands far too long.
By the way you will get bored of beach life very quick in Perth less than 5% of the population bother, watch out for sharks.
Read your big ideas about opening a cafe in Perth good luck the Asians will have you out of business in less than a year.
Forget the East Coast if you live in Perth costs an arm and a leg to fly there.
re: my cafe/ bar idea was just an idea and like a true pom, i would specialise in catering for poms! i.e full english breakfast, tea and scones (home made) meat and 3 veg, shepards pie etc, but above all, if there was a need to cater for ethnic minorities too, i would do so. you have to be inovative and flexable to surrive any where in the world.
ps i have only lived in mids for half of my life, trust me i have been arround!!!
