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29. Railway station as close to the beach as it gets

32. City holding the 2024 Olympics

33. One who looks after a flock of sheep (not the dog)

34. Brown undersea vegetation

38. Violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd

39. Roy Rogers’ horse, and what you pull on a gun

41. Handgun

42. Which English prince is now known as Duke of Edinburgh

9. Volume of live Rock n Roll music

10. Person who cultivates grapes for a living

15. First Nepalese to climb Mt Everest

17. Egyptian/Greek goddess. Mother of all gods.

18. An ammunition storage and feeding device for a repeating firearm

21. Liberals candidate for the seat of Kiama

22. Smooth-bore gun for firing small shot at short range

24. Northernmost coastal river in the Municipality

26. One who rides race horses

28. French for black

30. Oldest monarch at the start of his/her reign

31. Southernmost coastal creek in the Municipality

35. School student

36. Slang for mescaline

37. Largest continent

40. Supernatural being

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Both! Being outdoors is important for normal vision development, particularly for children and adolescents, where outdoor time has been shown to reduce likelihood of myopia. Importantly, this does not mean being in the sun, just being outside is protective against myopia.

But, we all know the effect of ultraviolet light (UV) on our skin, and it can have ageing effects on our eyes too. Excessive UV light can cause eye surface problems like eyelid skin cancers, as well as growths on the surface of the eye called pinguecula and pterygia.

Deeper in the eye, cloudiness of the lens called cataract is probably infl uenced by UV light exposure. UV is a major contributor to macular degeneration, and is second only to smoking as a causative factor.

The good news is that all these problems can be prevented by wearing appropriate eyewear. Wrap sunglasses are important to protect the eye’s surface. For people with macular degenaration I recommend sunglasses are worn even when the sun is low in the sky, as more UV light makes it through to the back of the eye than when the sun is overhead.