While we wait for offshore dredging permits, what about all that sand on the shore?

NOT WHAT IT WAS: 2016 hang-glider view of Nobbys, with The Spit just out of shot on the left hand side. Remember, Nobbys was an island, and so much of that sand, deposited by the predominant southerly swell, would have ended up at Stockton.

IT'S been two years or so since offshore dredging emerged as the source for sand to replenish the perennially endangered waterfront at the southern end of Stockton Beach.

In October 2020, I wrote a two-page Saturday news spread titled "Stockton's loss is Nobbys' growth", which looked at the situation at the two beaches from a surfer's point of view.