BluesKing777 Posted August 14, 2016 Posted August 14, 2016 Absolutely nothing to do with anything - Went for a drive on the weekend with my camera, to an island on the South Coast - tough place to live on the cliff: In front of the house above: Some places to rent on the cliff - others for sale....pretty expensive. BluesKing777.
BluesKing777 Posted August 14, 2016 Author Posted August 14, 2016 Further along the coast, there is a beach with all these signs and a very, very cheap shack for sale: Trying to scare us off: BluesKing777.
BluesKing777 Posted August 14, 2016 Author Posted August 14, 2016 And this is what happens if you don't get the Olympics, but built the canoe pool BluesKing777.
capmaster Posted August 15, 2016 Posted August 15, 2016 Very impessive photos, thank you for sharing! I would be content with taking pictures there I think. Getting trapped by a rip current is a serious danger. In this case drifting into another one flowing back to a different area of the beach is best to survive.
MissouriPicker Posted August 15, 2016 Posted August 15, 2016 Beautiful location. Great pics. Be cool to live there and have guitars too.
BluesKing777 Posted August 15, 2016 Author Posted August 15, 2016 Very impessive photos, thank you for sharing! I would be content with taking pictures there I think. Getting trapped by a rip current is a serious danger. In this case drifting into another one flowing back to a different area of the beach is best to survive. Yes, I would put maybe my toes in there! I was rescued from a rip on an ocean beach about 35 years ago - a friend and I went to a famous surf beach to bodysurf, went in between the flags and all the people and lifesavers and swam straight into a rip. The surfboats were rescuing everyone, unceremoniously too - we got dragged into the boat by the hair, sped to the beach and dumped rather humiliatingly face down on the sand at the edge of surf as the boat sped off to rescue more people. Chaos really. If they were'nt there, we would be in the middle of the Pacific Ocean somewhere. Same with those stairs, probably need rescue coming back up. BluesKing777.
EuroAussie Posted August 15, 2016 Posted August 15, 2016 Miss these elements of Australia..., but the beers too bloody expensive!
fortyearspickn Posted August 15, 2016 Posted August 15, 2016 Yeppers. I was dragged out to see the sea by a Rip Tide too. I definitely wouldn't be here - but for the intelligence and bravery of a Jones Beach State Park Life Guard. So, when I see pix like those - I really appreciate the beauty. But, it's like seeing a lion in the zoo. I don't stick my hand between the bars!
jannusguy2 Posted August 15, 2016 Posted August 15, 2016 Don't you survive a rip current by swimming parallel to the shore until you find your way out of it? Never having been in one I don't know that I'd have the presence of mind to do that. Lovely scenery in your pics, BK. If that were in the U.S., there'd be condos everywhere.
BluesKing777 Posted August 15, 2016 Author Posted August 15, 2016 Don't you survive a rip current by swimming parallel to the shore until you find your way out of it? Never having been in one I don't know that I'd have the presence of mind to do that. Lovely scenery in your pics, BK. If that were in the U.S., there'd be condos everywhere. It is what you are supposed to do - swim sideways out of the rip, but the whole thing is very quick and confusing, plus for me, there were huge waves as well. So you floated up over the big swell and plonked down in to the rip area..... Same everywhere you go about the condos! Depends where you go, I suppose. 'Back when I was a boy' ha ha in advance, I stayed on the foreshore in a camping ground right where the biggest buildings are - had a learn to surf! Look at it now: http://gorideawave.com.au/surf-school-location/gold-coast-learn-to-surf/ BluesKing777.
BluesKing777 Posted August 16, 2016 Author Posted August 16, 2016 Want to see a couple more photos? I haven't posted that many for a while......
BluesKing777 Posted August 16, 2016 Author Posted August 16, 2016 And I cropped this photo in close - pretty good lens/camera!
BluesKing777 Posted August 16, 2016 Author Posted August 16, 2016 Some beach houses along the cliff above the surfers - some for rent! None too keen on the Hound... [biggrin]
BluesKing777 Posted August 16, 2016 Author Posted August 16, 2016 The Dobromobile! (Better Half doesn't want her photo up, but the chauffeured prince (dog) in the back seat would!) BluesKing777.
BluesKing777 Posted August 17, 2016 Author Posted August 17, 2016 The Dobromobile! (Better Half doesn't want her photo up, but the chauffeured prince (dog) in the back seat would!) BluesKing777. Yes, the car reminded me of my metal Dobro, maybe the wheels? BluesKing777.
mountainpicker Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 BK777, what's a "very, very cheap shack" go for in that world?
BluesKing777 Posted August 17, 2016 Author Posted August 17, 2016 BK777, what's a "very, very cheap shack" go for in that world? About 10 times more than you would expect! Not kidding. I am not buying, holiday places have all kinds of land taxes that made a lot of people sell quite a few years back, but I am not sure if it still the same. We have been watching old Beachfront Bargain Hunt shows on the re-run channel - armchair experts. BluesKing777.
BluesKing777 Posted August 18, 2016 Author Posted August 18, 2016 Hear is the cheap shack, Mountain Picker, walking distance to the ocean, no view, but the catch is 3 - 4 hour drive from my place, but you can live in "Paradise" - Paradise Beach : http://www.domain.com.au/53-fifth-avenue-paradise-beach-vic-3851-2012681414 But 90 mins from my place: This is the apartment I saw cheap - it has a sea view (for now), but what they don't mention is all the apartments/houses that are going to go in front of it, (I assume): http://www.domain.com.au/3-2-126-shetland-heights-road-san-remo-vic-3925-2012994421 Wow, look at this place above one of the bays I photographed, not a shack! http://www.domain.com.au/30-the-esplanade-sunderland-bay-vic-3922-2012968228 But if you just have to BE THERE in the area, well there are other strange arrangements, no view, main access road: http://www.domain.com.au/30-sunderland-bay-road-sunderland-bay-vic-3922-2012875434 And this horrible old shack : http://www.domain.com.au/241-smiths-beach-road-smiths-beach-vic-3922-2012876079 And this one is in the middle of the old golf course, so all that vacant lad around it will be developed, I imagine: http://www.domain.com.au/15-breeze-court-san-remo-vic-3925-2012975242
mountainpicker Posted August 18, 2016 Posted August 18, 2016 Sheesh some of those prices are like slightly down valley from Aspen! Think I'll look into Esperance, Australia or some place really remote!
BluesKing777 Posted August 18, 2016 Author Posted August 18, 2016 Sheesh some of those prices are like slightly down valley from Aspen! Think I'll look into Esperance, Australia or some place really remote! Forget Esperance! Since the massive mining boom, that is prety expensive too. What about the quaintly named - 231 Mud Alley, Foul Bay, South Australia?: http://www.domain.com.au/231-mud-alley-foul-bay-sa-5577-2012707263 BluesKing777.
BluesKing777 Posted August 18, 2016 Author Posted August 18, 2016 That's not a Yugo!!!! I got the blues all over! BluesKing777.
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