This the beach at Merricks, which is where my grandmother had a house. We spent all our holidays there from the time I was 5. This is looking east.Merricks Beach is on Western Port Bay, and you look across the bay to Phillip Island, which is home to the fairy penquin.
This is still the same beach but further along. My sister Gwynne is the one on the left and Fiorella is her ex-husband's sister. You can just make out Phillip Island in the background.
This is from the same point as the first photo and is looking to the west towards Flinders, which is our next stop.
Behind Grandma's house is this lovely walking path. Lots of pine trees which some of the property owners recently wanted to take out because they werent native to the area, but as you can see they are very well establised and were large when we first starting going there 60+ years ago.
This is me on another part of the same track.
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What a beautiful views! Great photos! Could almost hear the ocean. =o)
Gwynne and I have such happy memories of our times at Merricks. Always lots of people and lots of laughter. Although Grandma has the two houses, we were not rich people. There as no electricity and only tank water.
The nearest store was 3 to 4 miles away. But noone complained. Pop had a car but mostly we walked everwhere. How different these days.
That's true. It's different time all together today, to compare it years back.
We spent almost all of our school holidays at my Grandmother's (father's mother) place with my siblings and cousins. She lived alone in a little cottage in the middle of the forest. Without a car and the nearest little store was about 10 km away and the next over 40 km in the little city called Uusikaupunki (New-City).
I had to find out what a mile is and found out that one mile is 1609,344 kilometres. So that's really a long way then, 3 to 4 miles. We can travel the whole Finland East to North at that and it takes many hours drive.
But we didn't still have to go shopping that far but rarely, 'cos there was a shopping car that visited the village twice a week. If we needed something that wasn't regularly there, we just ordered it beforehand. That was handy. Though the village was also almost 10 kms away from the cottage, but there was no big hills to cycle up and down like it was when we went to the store...
We also fetched our water from the well that was about a kilometre away. The cottage has been built in the dry spot of the forest, to make sure it wouldn't have any damp problems. One bucket at each hand and couple of people at a time, so we managed to have enough water for us.
There was electricity, but the wires were only on the kitchen and on one of the bedrooms. Others we lighted with candles and torches. But in the summer here is light almost all night through, too, so we didn't need the ligting exept if it was storming in the evenings.
When my grandmother moved to the city when her health get so bad she didn't manage in the cottage by herself any more, she had to sell the cottage. We may some day go and visit the new owners and see what's still there or have they made a lot of changes. That's been on my mind a lot these last two years.
Your calculator is a bit out, cause 3-4 miles is about 5-6 kilometres, so not quick that far to go. You would have had further.
Sorry I sometimes still think in the old measurements.
We had a man come around during the 6-8 weeks of CHristmas break, to sell meat. There were two dairies here we could get milk and sometimes eggs.
Cant remember if someone came around with fruit and vegetables but they must have.
We had kerosene lamps and something called a tilly lamp which you pumped up and it gave a really good light. As well as candles.
Later we had a radio which ran off a car battery, we thought that was pretty good.
The simple things that we now take for granted.
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