Newcastle Stretch
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The Newcastle Stretch refers to the beaches and surfing breaks along the coast of Newcastle, New South Wales.
Listed from North to South the beaches and breaks are as follows:
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[edit] Nobbys Headland
- Horeshoe Beach
- The Harbour- refers to the breaks that form on the northern side of the southern breakwall, and the bar of the Hunter River.
- The Wedge- the breaks that form on the southern side of the southern breakwall.
[edit] Flagstaff Hill
- Nobby's Beach - southern side of the man-made ithsmus between Flagstaff Hill and Nobbys Island.
- The Groper - the breaks that form on the northern end of the convict pools, south of Nobby's Beach.
- Pete's Reef - the breaks that form on the southern end of the convict pools, north of Newcastle Baths
- The Cowrie Hole - break just off the Newcastle Baths, well known due to a house of the same name on Shortland Esplanade.
[edit] Newcastle Beach
- Flatrock - breaks towards the northern end of Newcastle Beach.
- Newcastle Beach
- South Newcastle Beach - beach adjacent to the South Newcastle Beach Skate Park.
- The Bogey Hole - beaks adjacent to the convict made Bogie Hole, below King Edward Park.
[edit] Merewether Beaches
- Susan Gilmour Beach - isolated beach, accessed around the northern headland of Bar Beach, or down a disused pathway from the Bar Beach carpark.
- Bar Beach - beach adjacent to the Cooks Hill SLSA.
- South Bar - breaks along the southern end of bar beach, at intersection of Memorial Drive and Helen St.
- The Cliff - breaks between South Bar and Dixon Park Beaches.
- Dixon Park Beach
- Pogonowski's (a.k.a Poggo's) - the break between Dixon Park and Merewether Beaches
- Merewether Beach
[edit] Burwood Beach
- Ladies - small beach directly south of the Merewether Ocean Baths
- Burwood Beach - south of Ladies, adjacent to Murdering Gully and the Burwood Beach Sewerage Treatment Works.
