Special places: Cemetery Beach
Hidden under the cliffs of the graveyard of my coastal home town Narooma lies one of my favourite places on earth. Cemetery Beach is special to me for a number of reasons. The main being that my Grandmother, Lynette is buried on the cliffs next to the narrow bush track, hidden by the entanglement of sea side bush scrub, in which leads to the very secret, dog friendly safe haven. After the recent storms that whacked the South Coast, the beach has very much so changed in form. Whilst the jagged volcanic rocks and pools of salt water still scatter across the shore line and stick out of the normally soft sand, the beach has new additions such as the stones that have been pushed up across the sand and a lot (and I mean A LOT of sand) has been washed off the beach back into the sea to un-cover even more rock platforms than I could have possibly imagined lying under the sand over the past 10 years I've walked there. In a way it made the whole walk with my dogs a completely new and unexpected discovery in a place that was so embracing and familiar to me. And I still managed to love the place even in it's new found form that according to some locals has slowly been turning back to the beach I used to know.
