LIFEGUARDS and lifesavers will be back on deck this weekend at beaches across Newcastle and Lake Macquarie.
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Newcastle, Stockton, Dixon Park and Merewether beaches will be patrolled from Saturday, September 20.
In Lake Macquarie, lifeguards will resume post at Redhead, Blacksmiths and Catherine Hill Bay.
Each year the Hunter’s beaches – with the exception of Newcastle Ocean Baths, Nobbys Beach and Bar Beach, which are patrolled by lifeguards year-round – are manned from the September school holidays through to April.
They are patrolled by council-employed lifeguards from Monday to Saturday, and volunteer surf lifesavers on Sundays and public holidays.
Patrol times vary from beach to beach.
For patrol times at Newcastle beaches, go to newcastle.nsw.gov.au and search beaches and baths under the recreation tab.
Go to lakemac.com.au and click on beach and lake swimming under the recreation tab for Lake Macquarie patrols.