WEYMOUTH

 

1/ Weymouth is on the north eastern coast of Tasmania. The Piper River at Weymouth attracts many kayakers, who are attracted by the peaceful waters.

2/ This photo shows the peaceful Piper River at Weymouth just before it reaches the sea. The river bank has many beaches, which are quite large at low tide and popular with Tasmanian families.

3/ This looks south down the Piper River. At low tide the area of sand and mud is vast.

4/ The Piper River beach becomes wide just before it empties into the sea, beyond the dunes.

5/ This photo shows the rows of sticks that are prevalent on the western side of Weymouth.

6/ At low tide the western side of the Piper River at Weymouth reveals rows of old timber. It is the remains of an old fish trap.

7/ This view looks south to show the full extent of the fish trap. The houses on the left are part of the beach holiday settlement of Bellingham.

8/ This is the Piper River entering the sea at Weymouth. Across the river is the tiny holiday hamlet of Bellingham.

9/ The sea beaches of Weymouth are kilometres of beautiful, white sands with few people on them.

10/ The kayakers of Weymouth paddle peacefully up and down the Piper River.

11/ The Piper River Estuary had warm peaceful waters and on both sides were long beautiful beaches.

12/ This is the tiny hamlet of Lulworth, as seen from the Piper River Estuary near Weymouth.

 

1/ Bellingham Beach is a long, beautiful beach in north eastern Tasmania. It is located east of Georgetown. This image shows the Piper River emptying into Noland Bay at high tide. There are three holiday hamlets in this area: Lulworth, Weymouth & Bellingham. Bellingham is just beyond this image to the right, while to the left is Weymouth. This album shows shots I made on walks with friends in 2019, 2020 & 2021. This image was taken early on the morning of a winter day.

2/ This image also shows the Piper River entering Noland Bay but at low tide. The foot prints show our walk direction to the east.

3/ Bellingham Beach is mostly a sand beach, but there were a few rocky areas that we had to cross.

4/ This image shows an exposed series of rock stratas.

5/ The rock stratas showed variation in their colours.

6/ This image looks to the west back towards Bellingham hamlet.

7/ At this point we had to deviate onto a bush track to bipass a very rocky area.

8/ This image looks down Bellingham Beach to the east. We had an enjoyable walk down many kilometres of empty, beautiful, white sand beaches.

9/ This image looks to the east. Beyond the large dune in the centre was the Little Pipers River.

10/ This image looks west back towards Weymouth. We were now in sight of the Little Pipers River.

11/ This image shows the Little Piper River our turn around point.

12/ This view looks towards the east as our party returned.

13/ This image shows a rock being used as a roosting point by sea birds.

14/ This image looks west back towards a distant Weymouth on the horizon. The most distant point on the right is Lulworth.

15/ This image shows a lagoon, we passed on the way to the rise.

16/ This is the view from a 68 metre high rise. It looks east over the beach we had traversed.

17/ The image taken from the rise, looks to the west at Bellingham hamlet on the left. The Piper River and Weymouth hamlets are on the right.

18/ This photo looks west towards Low Head. It was taken late on a winters day.

19/ This image shows the light house at Low Head.

20/ This was the view back towards the east.

 

1/ This is the old boat launch at Lulworth. There was once a large pier servicing a small harbour at this point.

2/ This is the stony beach north of the boat launch. In the distance, you can see the white sand beach of Lulworth, shown in photo number 2.

3/ This photo looks west towards the end of the stony beach at Lulworth.

4/ This view looks east across Tan O'Shanter Bay towards the growing beach settlement of Lulworth.

5/ This view looks east across Tan O'Shanter Bay. Beyond the point with its white sand beach is the other beach settlement of Weymouth.

6/ I was quite surprised at the way Lulworth had grown, since I lasted visited it in 2008. In the past 7 years the number of attractive, modern beach houses at Lulworth has exploded.

7/ This photo shows a lonely beach house on the eastern edge of Lulworth. It looks towards the other beach settlement of Weymouth, which is to the east.