Lake Macquarie - as large as life

10:48 PM Thu 2 Jun 2011 GMT

'The shoreline of Belmont Bay' Lake Maquarie Tourism

In the first of an occasional series about waterways that are close to home, and close to the heart, new Powerboat-world.com editor Mark Rothfield looks at Lake Macquarie near Newcastle in NSW. They say the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and, accordingly, few Novocastrians consider Lake Macquarie as a prime cruising ground . Port Stephens, a little to the north, seems greener, or at least bluer. You have to leave for a while in order to see the lake in a new light. With 174 kilometres of shoreline, there is much ...

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by Mark Rothfield