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Most dangerous places to swim in NSW They’re the idyllic swim spots spruiked on Instagram and beautiful beaches lists, but many are also notorious drowning locations.
Travel by Gillian McNally
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Subscriber only They re the secluded beaches and Insta-worthy waterways luring swimmers on balmy days, but amid a deadly drowning season, authorities are warning many can turn fatal. Lifesavers have renewed calls for swimmers to stick to patrolled areas as national drowning deaths spiked to 61, including seven on the Australia Day long weekend. All coastal drownings this year have been in unpatrolled areas, some just 600m away from an established location, said Surf Life Saving NSW chief executive officer Steve Pearce.
In a little slice of paradise, families work together to survive and thrive
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At Little Garie, what goes in, must come out. That includes rubbish and small children carried in on your shoulders.
That makes durable useful things precious. Looking into the McKenzie family s two-room shack there, most people see an old table, an incomplete dinner set and the flotsam and jetsam of 70 years of beach holidays in a shack bought in 1951, before the land became part of the Royal National Park.
Gary McKenzie outside his shack at Little Garie Beach. His grandmother bought it in 1951, and it has survived a range of threats.