Shoreham Beach Pictorial Heritage - 1840 to 2011

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1940 Honeysuckle Point

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1950 Honeysuckle Point

Shoreham Beach consists of two sections, divided by the Stony Creek Estuary and the Pines Reserve, at the end of the access road to the main car park.
 
The sheltered swimming/surfing/boating/fishing area extends about 1 km to the south head - the northern section reaches to Honesuckle Point, about 2 km.
 
Past Honeysuckle Point is the Pt Leo surf beach, a further 2 km.
 
Beyond the south head is Flinders,.about 3 km distant, with many reefs and rockpools.
 
The main campng area extends along the topm of the low cliffs towards Hionesuckle Point - walking tracks run from the camping area down to the beach.
 
The north beach is very rocky with a vast reef uncovered at low tide at Honeysuckle Point.  Further reefs and rocks are exposed past the south head, towards Flinders.
 
The former Jetty was sited about half-way along the main beach - all that is left are the remains of some old posts at the boat launching access point. The Jetty was built in the 1920s and was removed in the late 1940s.
 
Seeweed is part of the Shoreham coastal environment! 
 
There are excellent views across Westernport Bay to Phullip Island, the Nobbies, and Seal Rocks.
 
 
 

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1940 Panorama of Shoreham district

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1940 Main beach

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1950 Main Beach - pier gone

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1940 Stony Creek estuary

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1940 Stony Creek estuary

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1940 View of north beach

 

The images below were taken in 2011 by the author

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2011 North Beach

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2011 Main beach

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2011 Main beach and car park

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2011 North Beach

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2011 South Head

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2011 Reef at low tide

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2011 Beach cricket

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2011 Ocean

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2011 Rockpools


Comments, and reactions are welcome, to Bob Padula