My secret place
Location Newcastle Ocean Baths,
Newcastle, Australia
Yo g i Cat Mead
Photo Leighton Wallis
The Newcastle Ocean Baths is a favourite sunrise spot for swimmers,
surfers, photographers, dolphins, humpback whales and the occasional
yogi. Beyond the art-deco facade and the more than 100-year-old
carved bathing pools lies an abundance of rock platforms to soak
up the sun and practice yoga right on the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
Newcastle is slowly shedding its ‘Steel City’ image, says yogini Cat
Mead, and embracing new frontiers not normally associated with
outsiders’ pre-conceived perceptions of what should be going on there.
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