Beaches
Just an hour away from Sydney by train, 45 minutes by car and a constant 18,000 kilometres from fashion is the seaside sprawl of Ettalong Beach.
If you alight from nearby Woy Woy station, on a lucky day you can be welcomed upon arrival by the traditional overheard greeting phrase “give us back me smokes, ya sl_t”.
Then just pop yourself onto Blackwall Road, trot past the drive-through KFC, continue past the picturesque smash repair and bait shops, and you’re just about there.
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Some people get all the luck. Paul Welsh is surfing with his son, gets bitten (sorry, that should read ‘savagely menaced’) by a docile and mostly harmless Wobbegong and out come the cheque books.
Before a stitch is even sewn, he’s been snapped up by a television network and an early morning trip to the beach is now a big earner. Well done mate. If reports on the websites are true, you’ve hit the Shark-pot.
Shame it was only a Wobbegong. Imagine what you’d get for an actual Great White.
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Stan Wills says:
I’ve just fished a meter long White-crowned snake out of my pool , and set it loose .Maybe I should call some tv station and tell them it was an anaconda sizing me up .....could be worth some money Read more »
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Cameron says:
Every shark is a white pointer these days. And every snake a taipan. If the media had its way they would breed and release them to keep the numbers up! Will we now have a posse out shooting wobbegongs? Next time I go near our frog pond I will have… Read more »
Why was the sommelier kicked out of the nudist colony? He was walking around with a semillon.
This genius gag from South Australia - naturally - may well be the best joke of all time. And it’s offered here not as an unusual non-sequitir but a scene-setter for this piece about nudity.
Or rather, the scourge of nudity. And in particular, the way it is still permitted by law in South Australia, in one of the last remaining vestiges of the counter-culture era when drugs such as LSD helped convince ugly, hairy people that they looked good in the buff.
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maari says:
Yay ‘Simon’. Am of Finnish parents, sauna’d nude all my life then in adulthood went to Maslins over some years (not now due to distance). Have been various sizes over that time and don’t care what others think -if offended they may avert their gaze, but few have. As a… Read more »
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annon says:
A very backward article. There are a lot of clothes optional beaches around and there should be more of them to be honest. Many in this society have tried to sexualise nudists and naturists. This has next to nothing to do with naturism and nudism. Reading your article it seems… Read more »
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