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Marks Point, Lake Macquarie NSW. Extreme low tide, 1950Æs.
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…Extreme low tide, 1950Æs.……Photo Ref: 5751 … Creator: Donaldson, Mr Bruce … This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License … Related search terms … boat … environment … foreshore … jetty … lake macquarie … marks point … marks…
Swan Bay, Marks Point, Lake Macquarie NSW. Waterfront at high tide. Jetty covered by water. 1978
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…Waterfront at high tide.……covered by water. 1978 … Photo Ref: 5759 … Creator: Donaldson, Mr Bruce … This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License … Related search terms … environment … grass … lake macquarie … marks point … marks…
Belmont Flood 1949 - Lake Macquarie Yacht Club, Ada Street
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…Flood 1949 - Lake Macquarie Yacht Club, Ada Street … Photo Ref: 5233 … Creator: Parkinson, A … This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License … Related search terms … belmont … belmont … buildings … floods … floods … high …
Toronto baths dressing shed 23 January 1930. Old railway shed and guards van at end of railway line, to left.
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Lake Macquarie 1893
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…Rippling like the gentle breathing … Of a maiden in her sleep, … While without the waves are seething … And the surges roll and leap; … Type this is of earth’s existence - … Peace and warfare side by side; … Ocean with it’s fierce insistence, … Lake with calm and gentle tide.…
Lake Macquarie
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…Loth to see the trace of shadows … Darkly trembling on the tide, … Shed the sun his showers of crimson … And of gold, from side to side. … E’en as when despair’s forebodings … Threatening loom around thy soul, … Some bright hope will rise within us, … Rise, and beautify the whole.…
The Wonga Vine or Chocolate Bells
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…And memories of our youth's spring-tide … When hope and joy walked side by side, … And swiftly like a tumbling stream … We built our castles in our dreams. … Came summer with her blazing sun … Ere seemed that youth had yet begun, … And spring, a maiden ever shy … Bid us adieu, with many a sigh.…
Lake Macquaire
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…I’ve seen Loch Leven’s storied isle, … And bathed in Devon’s crystal tide; … I’ve basked in famed Killarney’s smile, … And played the reel by Ennis side. … But oh! For wild untrammelled grace, … For gorgeous nature vast and grand, … All other scenes to thee give place … In this fair isle or distant land.…
Blacksmiths
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…As it was sometimes flooded by high tides and a big surf, a large amount of filling had to be carried out by the Council in 1947 before subdivision was practicable. … Early Subdivisions: … Crown Land subdivision in August 1948 after filling was completed for flood mitigation.…
Weird weather
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…Being a coastal lagoon with much low lying land around the foreshore has meant that elevated ocean levels (high tides and storm surge) as well as intense rainfall over the catchment have always made the lake prone to water rises and shoreline flooding.…

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