BRIDPORT & Barnbougle Dunes

 

1/ Bridport is thriving modern beach town with a modern shopping centre.

2/ This photo shows the Forester River emptying into Anderson Bay. Beyond is the famous Barnbouble Dunes Gold Course, which attracts world class golfers.

3/ The Southern Condor operates a ferry service for people and stock to Flinders island.

4/ This rusty old trawler shows that Bridport was once a major fishing port.

5/ This photo shows a fishing boat moored on the Brid River, which connects to the Forester River at Bridport. The town is a popular mooring place for small boats.

6/ Beside the shopping centre is the Village Green Park, which is well equipped to please children.

7/ Jet skis are hired out at Bridport and are very exciting to ride.

8/ Here jet skis are returning to their hiring point on the Forester River.

9/ Just beyond the Village Green is Goftons Beach with its beautiful white sands.

10/ Goftons Beach is also popular with anglers. The far point is Pier Point.

11/ This is a view of the small beach near the Caravan Park at Pier Point.

12/ This is another view of the small beach near Pier Point.

13/ This is the ancient collapsed pier at Pier Point.

 

1/ Barnbougle Dunes is a world famous golf course on the eastern edge of Bridport. This photo is looking west from the Lost Farm Restaurant towards Bridport, which is on the distant right horizon. Just beyond the dunes on the right is Barnbougle Beach.

2/ This is the view of the Barnbougle Dunes Golf Course to the south of the Lost Farm Restaurant. The course is many kilometres in size

3/ From the Barnbougle Dunes Golf Course you can walk straight under the dunes to Barnbougle Beach. This is the view to the west looking towards Bridport.

4/ This is the lovely view from Barnbougle Beach looking towards the Waterhouse Conservation Area in the east. It is like the other long, beautiful, beaches of Bridport.

 

1/ East Sandy Point is a lovely, deserted peninsula in north eastern Tasmania. It is east of Bridport. This area is accessed from Sandy Point Road, which travels west out of Bridport. This gallery shows images taken on a club excursion in the summer of 2014. This image looks to the east of Lodes Beach.

2/ A rough track leads from the end of the Sandy Point Road to Lodes Beach. On this occasion a hazard warning was placed on the road to stop drivers continuing. You would be most foolish to attempt to wade this stream either on foot or in a car. It is much more dangerous, than it looks.

3/ This image shows the final approach over a dune to Lodes Beach. This kind of track is only suitable for AWD vehicles.

4/ We found this interesting, amateur, tree sculpture on Lodes Beach near an area of the beach that was used by juvenile delinquents or "car hoons", as they are called in Tasmania.

5/ This image looks south east down Lodes Beach. The sign warns visitor to care for the shore birds that nest in this area.

6/ This stretch of Lodes Beach looks to the north west towards the Double Sandy Point Reserve. The circular patterns in the sand were recently made my juvenile delinquents or "car hoons". They call this "doing wheelies". Tasmania would be one of the few places in the world, where great beaches are available for doing car driving pranks.

7/ This image shows a rock platform near Double Sandy Point Reserve. It looks towards the north west.

8/ This image shows the view from near Sandy Point. It looks across Anderson Bay.

9/ The Double Sandy Point Reserve has many massive moving sand dunes. This image shows our group climbing a large dune.