Hummers in camouflage will take you on a desert fantasy in the Stockton sand dunes.  Mad Max and the War on Terror mythologisers will take you there.

 

Taming the Dunes.  There is no getting away from the law.
The breathalizer squad tested me today - no worries. 

The 'road' to the Stockton sandhills is high wide and handsome and improvements are under construction. A subtle building will be situated at the turn off the main road. I believe the Worimi people are custodians of the ocean park. It took them a long time to get this role and is in keeping with their long term use of the area before European settlement. 

The 'fatal shore'.  Stockton Beach is quite long and virtually uninhabited and the beach almost disappears into the distance. This is looking south ultimately to the entrance of the Port of Newcastle. Along its length, the high sandhills or dunes are similar to a desert landscape and the dunes menace the hinterlands.
Exploration of the dunes is popular.  Once our family overnighted there in the warm sands and naturally the night grew cool and the breezes became sea ladened along with a few fears of sleeping in the path of a 4x4 but all that was the challenge.     

Stroll along the harbour side and see roadside memorials and a ghost ship as well as the here and now.