What washes up on Sydney shores is a tale for all times

Did you see the sea in Sydney last Sunday? Huge waves battered the city's coastline from Palm Beach down to Cronulla, with swells not seen for some time in Sydney.

Wind gusts of up to 70 kilometres an hour on my home turf shifted metres of sand, revealing a glimpse of Sydney's past. On Monday, the storm revealed old pylons from the Coogee Pier, which had stood from 1928 to 1934, when it was demolished. A huge wave damaged it first, then the army was called it to tear it down.

I still recall my father's stories of Sundays spent taking the tram to Coogee with pockets full of small change to spend in the penny arcade machines. Also delivered by last Sunday's turbulent waves were containers of medical supplies, lost overboard south of Sydney as a ship, the APL England, was en route from China to Melbourne.

pitthen shipping containers toppled Coastal houses would be flooded Imagine the canal homes in Surfers built on swamps next the rivers

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