Pristine day heralds winter solstice and longest night of the year
It boasted a pristine sky, fair surfing conditions and clean sets off the Cowrie Hole. Awash in a warm and sunny 19 degrees, and just off the back of the Newcastle Ocean Baths, a bulky Australian fur seal luxuriated in the serenity as the surfers gave it a respectful berth.
The fur seal - which, along with their long-nose cousins, frequent the Hunter - is a somewhat regular visitor to the ocean baths.
Lifeguards on Friday morning, speaking of the big pup like an old friend, said it drops by usually around this time of year to check in.
Its whiskers just crested the water line as is bobbed between the swell. Time seemed to slow down as residents and shutterbugs mingled to take it in.
"This is a process called thermo-regulating," a spokesperson for Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia told the Newcastle Herald in 2023, when another seal was spotted off the Nobbys breakwall similarly waving a flipper as it floated. "When they get too hot, it helps them cool down."
Friday's sunshine was expected to gradually give way to cloudier conditions, with a chance of showers toward the middle of next week.
Surf conditions are expected to remain fair through Sunday, with a swell just above two feet, at waist height. Southern swell spots were making the best of the conditions, surf forecasters said, with chest-high waves for the short boards, or the sheltered zones optimal for the longboards on the incoming tide.
The southern hemisphere's winter solstice is on Saturday, June 21.
It marks Australia's shortest day and longest night of the year based on sunlight hours. But the good news is that from then on Aussies will get an incremental increase in the amount of visible sunlight each day.
There were - to use the journalist's favourite literary device - 'sealier' places to be than soaking up the sun just off Newcastle Ocean Baths on a near-perfect winter's day on Friday.
It boasted a pristine sky, fair surfing conditions and clean sets off the Cowrie Hole. Awash in a warm and sunny 19 degrees, and just off the back of the Newcastle Ocean Baths, a bulky Australian fur seal luxuriated in the serenity as the surfers gave it a respectful berth.
The fur seal - which, along with their long-nose cousins, frequent the Hunter - is a somewhat regular visitor to the ocean baths.
Lifeguards on Friday morning, speaking of the big pup like an old friend, said it drops by usually around this time of year to check in.
Its whiskers just crested the water line as is bobbed between the swell. Time seemed to slow down as residents and shutterbugs mingled to take it in.
"This is a process called thermo-regulating," a spokesperson for Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia told the Newcastle Herald in 2023, when another seal was spotted off the Nobbys breakwall similarly waving a flipper as it floated. "When they get too hot, it helps them cool down."
Friday's sunshine was expected to gradually give way to cloudier conditions, with a chance of showers toward the middle of next week.
Surf conditions are expected to remain fair through Sunday, with a swell just above two feet, at waist height. Southern swell spots were making the best of the conditions, surf forecasters said, with chest-high waves for the short boards, or the sheltered zones optimal for the longboards on the incoming tide.
The southern hemisphere's winter solstice is on Saturday, June 21.
It marks Australia's shortest day and longest night of the year based on sunlight hours. But the good news is that from then on Aussies will get an incremental increase in the amount of visible sunlight each day.
There were - to use the journalist's favourite literary device - 'sealier' places to be than soaking up the sun just off Newcastle Ocean Baths on a near-perfect winter's day on Friday.
It boasted a pristine sky, fair surfing conditions and clean sets off the Cowrie Hole. Awash in a warm and sunny 19 degrees, and just off the back of the Newcastle Ocean Baths, a bulky Australian fur seal luxuriated in the serenity as the surfers gave it a respectful berth.
The fur seal - which, along with their long-nose cousins, frequent the Hunter - is a somewhat regular visitor to the ocean baths.
Lifeguards on Friday morning, speaking of the big pup like an old friend, said it drops by usually around this time of year to check in.
Its whiskers just crested the water line as is bobbed between the swell. Time seemed to slow down as residents and shutterbugs mingled to take it in.
"This is a process called thermo-regulating," a spokesperson for Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia told the Newcastle Herald in 2023, when another seal was spotted off the Nobbys breakwall similarly waving a flipper as it floated. "When they get too hot, it helps them cool down."
Friday's sunshine was expected to gradually give way to cloudier conditions, with a chance of showers toward the middle of next week.
Surf conditions are expected to remain fair through Sunday, with a swell just above two feet, at waist height. Southern swell spots were making the best of the conditions, surf forecasters said, with chest-high waves for the short boards, or the sheltered zones optimal for the longboards on the incoming tide.
The southern hemisphere's winter solstice is on Saturday, June 21.
It marks Australia's shortest day and longest night of the year based on sunlight hours. But the good news is that from then on Aussies will get an incremental increase in the amount of visible sunlight each day.
There were - to use the journalist's favourite literary device - 'sealier' places to be than soaking up the sun just off Newcastle Ocean Baths on a near-perfect winter's day on Friday.
It boasted a pristine sky, fair surfing conditions and clean sets off the Cowrie Hole. Awash in a warm and sunny 19 degrees, and just off the back of the Newcastle Ocean Baths, a bulky Australian fur seal luxuriated in the serenity as the surfers gave it a respectful berth.
The fur seal - which, along with their long-nose cousins, frequent the Hunter - is a somewhat regular visitor to the ocean baths.
Lifeguards on Friday morning, speaking of the big pup like an old friend, said it drops by usually around this time of year to check in.
Its whiskers just crested the water line as is bobbed between the swell. Time seemed to slow down as residents and shutterbugs mingled to take it in.
"This is a process called thermo-regulating," a spokesperson for Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia told the Newcastle Herald in 2023, when another seal was spotted off the Nobbys breakwall similarly waving a flipper as it floated. "When they get too hot, it helps them cool down."
Friday's sunshine was expected to gradually give way to cloudier conditions, with a chance of showers toward the middle of next week.
Surf conditions are expected to remain fair through Sunday, with a swell just above two feet, at waist height. Southern swell spots were making the best of the conditions, surf forecasters said, with chest-high waves for the short boards, or the sheltered zones optimal for the longboards on the incoming tide.
The southern hemisphere's winter solstice is on Saturday, June 21.
It marks Australia's shortest day and longest night of the year based on sunlight hours. But the good news is that from then on Aussies will get an incremental increase in the amount of visible sunlight each day.
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"[The earthquake] being in Russia and so far away from where we are ... there wasn't really alarms going off here like there was on the North Shore of Oahu [in Hawaii]. "It was pretty chill. The comp wrote in our group chat about it and kind of warned us, a few protocols, but nothing was ever too serious. "We were down there at 6am looking at the conditions early and everything seemed all good. It was never too much of a worry." At the end of another lay day when he spoke to the Herald, Baker was hopeful for better surf come Friday (AEST). The US Open of Surfing begins with a men's round of 80, which Wilson will start in, but Baker, Callinan and Cibilic begin in the round of 64. The Challenger Series (CS) began with Newcastle Surfest in June, and had its second stop in South Africa last month. After a round-of-64 exit in Newcastle and only advancing to the round of 32 at the Ballito Pro, Baker is ranked 42nd ahead of the Huntington contest. Callinan is ninth, Cibilic is 24th and Wilson, who missed the South African event, is 71st. Given this week's event is the third of seven CS contests, there remains plenty of time for Baker and his countrymen to improve their rankings as they chase a return to surfing's top tier. Only the top-10 ranked CS surfers qualify for next year's Championship Tour. "It's definitely not the start to the year that I would have wanted," Baker said. "You'd think having your first event in Newy, I would have much rather got a result like Ryan [second]. "But I'm super happy for Ryan, he is in a great position to get back on tour. For me, I just want to join him, so that fuels the fire to get on the horse and start to get some points. "This event hasn't really been the best one for me in years past, but I've been putting in the work. Everything feels good; the boards, my body feels 100 per cent, which it hasn't been before, so I'm definitely happy about that ... the only thing I can control in these small conditions is my head space and take it heat-by-heat. "To make some heats and gain some confidence would be amazing heading into an event that I really love over in Portugal and then into Brazil where I did well last year." Baker fell off the Championship Tour in mid-2023. Callinan dropped out mid-season this year. Cibilic hasn't been in the top tier since 2022, while Wilson is making a professional comeback after retiring in 2021. Jackson Baker's thoughts quickly turned to the people of Hawaii when tsunami warnings were issued after the Russian earthquake, warnings which extended to America's west coast where he is waiting to compete in a professional surfing contest. 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"[The earthquake] being in Russia and so far away from where we are ... there wasn't really alarms going off here like there was on the North Shore of Oahu [in Hawaii]. "It was pretty chill. The comp wrote in our group chat about it and kind of warned us, a few protocols, but nothing was ever too serious. "We were down there at 6am looking at the conditions early and everything seemed all good. It was never too much of a worry." At the end of another lay day when he spoke to the Herald, Baker was hopeful for better surf come Friday (AEST). The US Open of Surfing begins with a men's round of 80, which Wilson will start in, but Baker, Callinan and Cibilic begin in the round of 64. The Challenger Series (CS) began with Newcastle Surfest in June, and had its second stop in South Africa last month. After a round-of-64 exit in Newcastle and only advancing to the round of 32 at the Ballito Pro, Baker is ranked 42nd ahead of the Huntington contest. Callinan is ninth, Cibilic is 24th and Wilson, who missed the South African event, is 71st. Given this week's event is the third of seven CS contests, there remains plenty of time for Baker and his countrymen to improve their rankings as they chase a return to surfing's top tier. Only the top-10 ranked CS surfers qualify for next year's Championship Tour. "It's definitely not the start to the year that I would have wanted," Baker said. "You'd think having your first event in Newy, I would have much rather got a result like Ryan [second]. "But I'm super happy for Ryan, he is in a great position to get back on tour. For me, I just want to join him, so that fuels the fire to get on the horse and start to get some points. "This event hasn't really been the best one for me in years past, but I've been putting in the work. 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Simon Clark, president of the Sustainable Builders Alliance and the founder and director of Sustainable Homes Melbourne says hydronic heating is the "bees' knees" when it comes to heating your home, particular for those with older, "leaky" homes. By leaky, he means drafty homes with poorly sealed windows and doors, gaps in flooring, and inadequate insulation, which are more common in older homes. "Hydronic heating is a lovely ambient heat that just stays in the home and doesn't blow through and out of the home like a lot of the breezier alternatives," Mr Clark says. While you can get both gas and electric hydronic heating, Mr Clark says an increasing number of home buyers are now specifically looking for no-gas homes. Goodbye to gas He says renovating or building a home with electric heating, especially if it can be powered by solar panels can add enormous value to a home. "One of the biggest objectives for most of our clients we work with now, whether it's a renovation of an old home or a new home, is to have no gas," Mr Clark says. The latest electric hydronic heating can be effectively run using solar power, offering a sustainable and efficient way to heat homes. By pairing solar panels with a heat pump or electric boiler, the system can utilise solar energy to heat water, which is then circulated through pipes for heating the space, either through underfloor heating or radiator panels. Mr Clarke says while electric hydronic heating is 60 to 80 per cent more costly to install than gas, if it is powered by solar panels, it ends up being far cheaper, and more sustainable in the long run. Peter Stephens from real estate agent Nelson Alexander in Carlton North says installing a good hydronic heating system will add value to any home located in a cooler climate. "Home buyers, particularly down here in Melbourne, love hydronic heating, and we are finding more and more buyers carefully considering the energy efficiency of a home when they are buying," he says. "So, they are not just looking at the energy efficiency of the heating but the passive orientation of the entire home, including things like double-glazed windows and the thermal quality of the home," he says. Hot property: heating and selling price Mario Sanfrancesco from Blackshaw Manuka says in Canberra where it is mandatory to have an energy rating on every property that goes to market, choosing the right heating can have a significant impact on the selling price. "In Canberra, heating is a very important consideration for home buyers, given how grey and cold it can be." "Not only that, a good energy rating can really add to the value of your home, so it really is important to think through your heating options, in terms of costs, efficiency and sustainability," Mr Sanfrancesco says. 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