Patonga 2012 - Images
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These last four photos are of Pearl Beach. Mainly in for Margaret, to see if she remembers anything. In the corner of the beach, under that large rock wall is an ocean rock pool. That is where I first remember actually swimming, not just kicking and floundering to stay alive. I have had the memory for a long time, but it is a long time since I could connect it to anything.As soon as I saw that pool, it all became clear. We used to stay right up the other end of the beach and would walk down to the rock pool every day. This is a little creek, just near the rock pool, we would spend hours playing in it. There used to be a huge sandhill between it and the ocean, but one big summer storm evening, it disappeared. There one day, gone the next.