Newcastle Winter Solstice

A Jeffrey Smartesque image of my wife pushing the buggy

Leap of Faith - fishing off Nobbys

Apparently their beak can hold more than their belly-can

Cowrie Hole - the nestle of homes facing the ocean

Newcastle Baths - with mushroom pumphouse

Apartments in Newcastle Beach #1

Apartments on Newcastle Beach #2

Apartments on Newcastle Beach #3

And this little fellow fell off his mother's back - he's been taken to the RSPC

Merewether Property Guides

We get plenty of searchers looking for Merewether Real Estate and Merewether Property Guides, so we thought we should share our local guide on who sells houses in Merewether.  In a competitive market, we have limited the picks to the top seven, so we are sharing this list in no particular order and based purely on our own decision.

Choosing the right property in Merewether is not simply a question of location, aspect and pricepoint - there are other things to take into consideration - like personality, service and marketing style.  Hope you like our selection of Merewether property specialists and feel free to share you thoughts in the comments section below.

 Merewether Real Estate

McGrath Real Estate Merewether

At McGrath Newcastle City, we want to be known as the Number One choice when it comes to property management and sales in the Newcastle region. Our extensive knowledge of the Newcastle area, coupled with the unrivalled quality of service that has become synonymous with McGrath throughout Australia, allows us to obtain the best results for our clients.

Merewether Property Agents

Walkom Merewether Real Estate Agency

Walkom Real Estate is Newcastle’s most experienced and respected real estate agent. We specialise in residential sales, fine homes, investment property, commercial property, developments, and property management.  Nobody knows the Newcastle property market better than Walkom Real Estate. We’ve been helping people to buy, sell and rent homes and apartments since 1961. Five of our sales team have more than 20 years experience in the local property market.

Merewether Real Estate - Robinson

Robinson RE Merewether

Robinson Property has been established for over 40 years and has become a market leader in suburban, inner city and beachside residential sales and management.  Our team of professionals have over 300 years of combined business and professional experience between them. With qualifications in accounting, management and marketing, we believe we have the skills to provide our customers a successful outcome.

Merewether Real Estate - Dalton

Dalton Partners Merewether House For Sale

When you decide to put your home or investment property for sale or lease, you want expert advice, reliable support and regular feedback.  You need an agent who knows the market, set achievable goals and gets you the 'best price possible'!  Newcastle home-owners appreciate our partnership approach.  They're increasingly choosing Dalton Partners to sell their most important asset.  Dalton Partners have branches at the Junction and New Lambton and are regarded as one of the city's leading independent agencies.

 Merewether Property Agency

Merewether Century 21 Homes for sale

Established in The Junction in 1974 by foundation Director “John Wragge”, Century 21 Five Star Properties has continued to develop its business around sound local knowledge, absolute honesty and integrity, and a personal level of service, second to none in the City. As principal, Wayne Stewart notes that success should not be measured by being the biggest, but by the highest percentage of satisfied customers.

 Merewether Property Guides

Merewether Ray White Property

 When you engage us as your Agents, we undertake to keep you completely informed as to the state of the market as it affects your property and we ensure that you can make a fully informed decision when a buyer is found. All of our sales staff are graduates of the Ray White Sales Course. They regularly attend seminars to ensure that you are properly advised, to ensure that your property receives the maximum exposure to the market and, most importantly, to ensure that you obtain the highest possible price in the shortest possible time.

  Merewether Home Prices

Merewether Real Estate Auction

 Chapman Property has been synonymous with Property Management and Real Estate in Newcastle and the Hunter since 1971.  From humble beginnings and 3 staff members, Chapman Property has grown to be one of the most active and successful Property Management and Real Estate firms in the region with more than 25 trained and highly skilled staff.

 As you can see, the Merewether Property Market is well serviced by well qualified and experienced real estate agencies.  Good Luck in your search for the perfect property in Merewether.

Merewether Autumn 2014

Hazel Contemplating

Bright Yellow Sign #1

Bright Yellow Sign #2

Bright Yellow Sign #3

Distinctive home overlooking Merewether Baths.

The Toddler's Pool, Merewether Baths 2014

Pumphouse Merewether Baths 2014

Outflow Merewether Baths 2014

Under Repair Merewether Baths 2014

Toddler's Pool, Merewether Baths 2014

Only two made it out the back, Merewether Beach.

Wall Art, Merewether Subway

 Typical Autumn Day,
Merewether Beach and Baths 2014.

Merewether Baths Surf House

 SOME LOCAL SECRETS are worth sharing.  Just underneath Surf House at Merewether Beach is a pizza and fish and chip casual eats spot where you can feed a family of four for under fifty dollars. 

Once I got a taste we ate here every week for about six weeks straight - so we enjoy a nod from the waitstaff and know where to sit to catch the perfect nor-easter on a Friday afternoon.

The new walkway takes you effortlessly to Surf House from the Ocean Baths, so it has become an established habit for use to trudge up with sand between out toes and eat.

There is a relaxed friendliness about eating pizza with your hands whilst the kids scuttle about over the rockpools and drip ice cream on themselves.

Here's a sentimental image of the baths changerooms - slated for demolition/removal in 2014, we will probably miss the mustard ugliness and awkward design of the building. 

Jacaranda Carpet

This morning the Jacarandas at the end of the street had carpeted
the grass with blooms.  It took a little coaxing to get Isla to
lie on the dew wet grass but she grudgingly agreed - maybe that's why she's not smiling!

Jacaranda blossom carpet the grass.

Have learned a lesson about warming up the models - this shoot
was impromtu - we had to put down our spoons during breakfast
and run up the street - before the blooms faded in the sun.

Sunday in Spring 2013

The 12 chickens are eager to get out for breakfast and lay their eggs

This is the steel chicken coop - it works really well and keeps them safe at night - plus it is simple to clean.

Here is one of the silver wyandottes I bought from the NSW show - can you tell she is a show bird?

Here is the new laying house for the chickens to lay their eggs
it is an old dog kennel I got from the side of the road.

Look at how the tree ferns shade the egg house!

You can see how the tree ferns are thriving -
they all shed some fronds in the extreme heat over the last week.

Newcastle Livesites Fire

Bush TV.  That's what they call sitting around a campfire, watching the tendrils of flame curl and flick as the wood slowly crumbles to ash. 

Newcastle Live Sites

The art installation burned slowly, with people six deep around it soaking in the warmth.

Tree stumps split down the centre burned from within

Makes for a mesmerising meditation, with the heat reddening your cheeks and the eucalyptus smell in your hair. Just silently watching the flames - or tonight listening to a string quartet play the theme to Romeo + Juliet. 

I was standing next to one of the people with a logo on his polo shirt, and overhead him talking about the installation, but I did not linger to note something to repeat here.  It reminded me to do an interview next time I get the opportunity.

The Pirate's Aft launching the lanterns

An almost balmy evening crowded with children and music and flames - makes for a worthwhile event on the local calendar.  Last year we wandered around Pacific Park with some mulled wine, this year we made floating lanterns and set them free on Civic Fountain Pond. 

Plastic Container lids in the back corner of the Kitchen Cupboard - WTF?

Sometimes it feels good (or is absolutely necessary) to bring a little order into an otherwise chaotic life. With this in mind I just resolved to tackle that terrifying, hard-to-reach corner of my kitchen cupboards that houses my collection of plastic food receptacles. These range from worth-their-weight-in-gold Tupperware (all vanished) containers to bulk-purchased cheap-arsed plastic takeaway boxes of all shapes and sizes.

What I found was absolutely mystifying. When I finally managed to exit the cupboard on hands and knees and survey my stash I found that I had precisely 55 lids and precisely 11 containers. Of those lids and containers I had precisely 3 matches.

To prove that I really do Shit You Not, I took a photo, and here it is. Actually, I took 2 and here they both are.

How. Does. This. Happen?

I can understand the occasional container being sacrificed to the Gods of Playdough, Roughhousing and Occasional Microwave Disasters, but for the love of all that is decent, how did 44 containers vanish? Perhaps (thinking outside the square here) they didn't vanish at all, but never existed, and there's some strange lid-breeding program going on in my cupboard resulting in multiple births of new and exciting container-less lids?

Whatever it is, I want my containers back. Or my lids gone. Or more matches. Or at the VERY least - a scientific explanation.

STxxx