Monday, April 03, 2006

Ocean Beach Road

(Holiday walkies)

Today's walk was brought to your by the letter Holiday. I'm having a couple of weeks off from the every-street walkies. When I get back to the every-street walkies I'll be bussing it back up to Gosford and right now I can't be fucked bussing it up to Gosford. So it's random walkies in search of fifties houses and other stuff and today's random walk was down Ocean Beach Road, one of the main roads of the Peninsula.

Fish shop on Ocean Beach Road Woy Woy
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Most of this shop is seventies but the front looks quite fifties with its row of small windows across the top of the main window and the air vents on the side wall. The shop is next to one of the two petrol stations on the corner of Rawson Road. Cinema Paradiso is the Peninsula's only cinema. It's ten minutes away down near the beach at Ettalong.

Rainbow lorikeet
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The rainbow lorikeets have eaten all the lemon gum flowers and stopped waking me up at sparrow's fart. But there's still bottlebrush street trees for them to eat.

Ocean Beach Road Woy Woy corner of Erina Avenue
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On the corner of Erina Avenue, next to Rogers Park. A lovely place, well-maintained (except for a gutter you can't see here) and the big windows suit it well. They look big enough to be sixties windows but the more I look at them the less I'm sure. Maybe the original owners just bucked the fifties trend.

Ocean Beach Road Woy Woy corner of Erina Avenue
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Same house, different angle. This is my favourite fifties house on the Peninsula.

Ocean Beach Road Woy Woy
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Not a very exciting example. Neat and tidy but with cladding over its original fibro and fugly seventies windows.

Ocean Beach Road Woy Woy
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Another scarcely-decorated house. Fairly well-maintained but small.

Ocean Beach Road Woy Woy
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Neat and tidy. The stunted pencil pines or whatever are rather heavy and forties-looking but it's still got its fifties fibro and those fugly windows look like they've been fitted into the original window frames.

Ocean Beach Road Woy Woy
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Still with its window awnings and with an extension out the back doubling its original size.

Ocean Beach Road Umina
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It's hard to see the slope on the roof here but that, the depth of the eaves and the shape of the front of the house say fifties to me, despite the seventies brick-over. This one is in Umina, just past Gallipoli Avenue, the boundary road between Woy Woy and Umina.

Ocean Beach Road Umina
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Second or third fifties place I've seen in these colours.Maybe they are fifties colours after all. I thought they were too strong. This place is opposite Bourke Road and the end of today's walk. On the ridge in the background you can see damage from the New Year's Day fires.

Beautiful weather all weekend and today. Nice nippy mornings and sunny afternoons. Proper autumn weather. At bloody last. I'm revelling in it. Got the ugg boots out and a fat quilt on the bed.

4 comments:

Fuckkit said...

Ello mate, so is Lonely Planet a good book to get yeah? Don't suppose you know of any good campsite resources do ya? Like a website or a book that lists campsites an stuff? :)

Spike said...

Lonely Planet is the way to go for yer Australia-on-ten-bob-a-day type info and general shit you need to get around and not get eaten. By animals.

There's also:
Tourism Australia's main site - currency converter, other shit.
Campsites book - looks good.
Poofs & dykes travel site - looks handy.
And have a decko at some of these.

Fuckkit said...

You're a star, cheers for that m'dear :)

Spike said...

Yer welcome.