Freedom from Stuff
Elizabeth Thinking about taking this trip is a good reason to just not buy stuff. I’m a little intimidated by the need to get rid of, or store, all the stuff…
No 31: Freshwater Beach – 5 January 2014
I would have posted Freshwater sooner but I got distracted by Duke Kahanamoku. Kahanamoku, a native-Hawaiian, Olympic swimming champion and sometime-movie star, is credited with introducing board surfing to Australia.…
The Dream Begins to Take Shape
Last night I told Sam I was thinking of taking a gap year and going for a long bicycle ride by myself. He thought it sounded scary but amazing.
New Years Resolutions – 1 January 2014
In so far as I have made resolutions for 2014 they are: 1. I will be honest with myself and others 2. I will strive to make my present fulfilling…
No 30: Forty Baskets Beach – 28 December 2013
I’ve been to the beaches but not blogged about them. It’s been quite a year for me. Sundays the Beach was our project and now it is my project. Change…
All that and a Naked German too – Beach No 29: Flint & Steel (24 November 2013)
If I were ranking the best named beaches Flint & Steel would be near the top. That I can’t find anything explaining the source of that fantastic moniker adds mystery…
A Bush Walk and Apple Strudel (No 28: Flat Rock Beach – 12 May 2013)
Here’s an interesting and unexpected story from Killarney Heights, the suburb where you’ll find Flat Rock Beach: In February 1979, a Lithuanian couple who believed they were being chased by…
Distant Memories of Fishermans Beach (No 27 – 28 April 2013)
These beaches – the ones in this gap, the ones I visited during my old life, I had to wait to do them because I didn’t need anything extra to…
Ice Creams at Fairlight Beach (No 26 – 14 April 2013)
Writing about our visit to Fairlight Beach is an exercise of memory. If I wrote something at the time I’ve lost it and it’s now August 2014. April 2013 feels…
Aeroplanes and Surfing Nippers – Number 25: Eloura Beach (23 March 2013)
Another beach from under the shadows of last year … The best beach day all year, maybe, and here we are nearly to April. It’s already biting hot at 10:30,…