BETTER THAN LYALL BAY

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1935, Page 6

BETTER THAN LYALL BAY

NEW PLYMOUTH BEACHES HOLIDAY-MAKER’S IMPRESSIONS. WEST COASTS SUPERIOR SURF. THE ADVANTAGES OF IRONSAND. The ironsand on Taranaki , beaches, looked at so askance by visitors from other parts, has at last been vindicated. One New Plymouth surf enthusiast for whom personally, like many others, no vindication is really needed, has discovered in it a very tangible virtue in comparison with other beaches—it is heavy and when the wind blows it does not rise in whirls.

The swimmer in question makes more or less frequent visits to Wellington. His latest visit left him with a week-end in the “windy city,” and he spent it at Lyall Bay making contrasts. “A northerly wind was blowing yesterday,” said he to tl News reporter last night, “and sand was everywhere. The ironsand that everybody thinks so dirty does at least keep to the surface of the beach when the wind blows, but at Lyall Bay the F-’ht sand blew everywhere. Bathers went round and sunbathed with their he-J- e”— sed in towels.” He was very pleased to return to a place “where the breakers were really breakers.” As he spoke they could be heard crashing in at Fitzroy in long white marching lines of foam. “Down there the ‘breakers’ were a foot high and against a northerly breeze it took them all their time to fal over.” “If Auckland and Wellington teams visiting Fitzroy for the New Zealand surf championships next month are greeted with such breakers as are sweeping in now,” was his final comment, “they will wonder what has struck them.”