[Vella Gonzaga]

Beach Day​

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Remember those family beach days? Back then, there was no sunscreen advice, just the goal of soaking up the sun by summer’s end! Cooling off meant endless swims and grabbing an ice cream or fish ‘n’ chips. And sunburn? Sliced tomato was the cure! What are your fondest beach day memories? Share them with us!

 

[Mikev]

Yep it was zinc cream on the nose and lips, a paddle in the baths, then underneath the beach umbrella, with the bucket and spade.
Later a trip across the road to get a paddle pop or a Weiss ice cream bar.

 

[magpie1]

Yep, out with the Zinc cream and suntan lotion then straight in for a swim, watch that sand it's bloody hot. Then a casual walk along the waters edge to the Pier....lots of jumping off and swimming,,,look out for those barnacles on the pylons, they'll rip your legs open easy. Then after lunch, under the Umbrella, back to the Pier for some fishing....never caught anything worth shouting about though. Finally down to the rock pools along the sea wall and catching crabs with a line and a bit of bacon on the end....throw the crabs in the bucket and take them home.....next day, dead crabs in the bucket and a stink that was just insane. Anyway we were on school holidays and renting a house so everyday was a repeat of above....great days and still have plenty of black and white photos at home....heck I look so small in those photos.

 

[Still Ebby]

Every weekend we would go to either Palm Beach, Balmoral, Curl Curl,Avoca or Dee Why.So many beautiful beach's around Sydney to choose from. Took one of my daughters friends once who was car sick yak.

 

[LesJH]

Every year at Christmas my family & a couple of other families used to load the truck of camping gear & then off to Stuart Park Wollongong for about four to six weeks of camping. It was 6weeks of swimming, fishing etc. At night the men would pack their gear & go prawning at Lake Illawarra & get home in early hours of the morning, hopefully with a swag of fresh school prawns, the kids would run around the bush with their torches at night looking for possums in the tree. There was also a horse & cart come around in the evening selling hot freshly pies & if we were good we probably got one, you can’t buy pies like them these days. After the 5 or 6 weeks it was time to pack up, the long hard crawl up Mount Ousley and back home to Balmain & ready for school again, I really miss those days Les.J.H.

 

[Judith A.]

When we were all growing up we spent every w/end with Mum & Dad at Cronulla beach. We caught the train from Kirrawee. Mum & Dad taught us all to swim from a very young age & as we got older Dad taught us how to body surf. He use to get a laugh putting us on a dumper you would land at the waters edge your togs full of sand it was a real joy. Christmas was spent at the grassy area of the beach. I sure miss those days but we sure have some good memories.