I grew up on the Gold Coast in Queensland. I no longer live there but my love of the beach will never leave me. I am not thrilled by some of the development along the coast but the beach is as wonderful as ever.
This week I went to Burleigh Heads. It is winter in Australia and the day was a bit windy and sometimes overcast but the beach still looked great. If not for the wind I might have been tempted to venture into the surf.
The building in the photo below is on the site of the pool where we went for swimming lessons when I was at high school.
I have always loved the Norfolk pines along the beach front at Burleigh Heads.
Now there are pandanus trees as well.
Rocks on the beach are quite unusual on the Gold Coast, apart from some of the rock walls built from time to time to help with erosion.
65 years ago my father took the photos below of his growing family on the rocks at Burleigh Heads beach.
I was 4 years old, my brother 2 and my sister just a baby. Another brother joined us about 10 years later. I feel very lucky to have grown up on the Gold Coast in the late 50s, 60s and early 70s, probably the best time to be there.
mmmm