It is such a long time since I have been here, lots has happened in the last few years.
Where do I start...um, well we went through a bit of a torrid time with my dad due to dementia, such a horrible thing for one to have to deal with. Sadly a person goes from someone you recognise sadly to a very different person. In that time I wasn't able to go out with my camera which was very sad,
Then the following year we decided to sell our home of 32 years, which was hard. We had to paint and clean and scrub and dispose of things no longer wanted this took sometime, then finally it was ready to go on the market. Covid lockdowns put a damper on things and that stopped people coming through :( We never thought we would sell the house, but thankfully we did eventually. Now we are renting till our land is titled. Covid has stopped many things happening but not much we can do.
Then our next thing was we lost father in law sadly, so we also had that to deal with as well.
So now thankfully when not in lock down we are able to go out, we have been to a few places, it was so welcoming as being locked up for great lengths of time is not good on people mental status.
We travelled to Torquay twice which was lovely, although cold and wet one visit the other was hot and sunny, it was a lovely day. I felt so good being able to get to my happy place the beach. It was amazing standing and watching the big waves come in and crash on the rocks creating huge waves.
I was so happy to be able to get a few photos of this beautiful beach. More photos can be seen at https://www.instagram.com/pictures_thru_my_lens/
Split Point Beach Great Ocean Road
Point Lonsdale Great Ocean Road
I was so happy to be out of the house and away from my surroundings with my familiar friend the camera. It had been such a long time since I'd been out and and I was beginning to feel quite frustrated with being home as many of you will understand, one thing you must do is to try and stay positive through all of this.
One of our recent trips was to 13th beach at Barwon Heads. Beloved was starting to feel like myself with only working to which he has been doing at home for the past 12 months, although he enjoys the working from home and not having to get into his car and drive somewhere in the traffic, he still felt the need to get out as I did.
We had never been to 13th beach so it was nice to see something a bit different. When we go out on our trips we now take all our own food and drinks and try to stay away from anyone that is around, we carry our masks with us just in case we get out of the car. It felt so nice to get out see the sunshine and have the smell of the sea air around us. I think I am beginning to appreciate how lucky we are here in Australia and it does make you feel really good getting out after being locked up for weeks.
13th Beach Barwon Heads
On the way home we decided to head to Point Lonsdale, the sun was slowly disappearing and the cold sea breeze was coming in. I was surprised how quickly it had become dark once we arrived at Point Lonsdale. I was able to get a few photos when all of a sudden every thing was covered in a thick white fog. This made it terribly had for the ships that were coming in and the light house near us sounded it's horn to let the ship know where to go. The light which came from the light house would not have been visible from the ocean and even as close as we stood, we could barely see the light. We walked along the pier but nothing was visible other than the thick fog which was around us, it had also got so very cold. A few men cast their fishing rods off the side of the pier, as they tried to stay warm rubbing their hands together and zipping their coats up to their chin and pulling their beanies over their cold ears.
Point Lonsdale
Our trip home was a fog filled road, we had to be ever so careful that a kangaroo didn't jump out in front of us, with the amount of fog, we may not have been able to see it. The fog followed us almost all the way home. I wondered if any of the fishermen caught anything that night in the cold fog. It looked like a scene out of a horror movie.
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