This La Nina business is very nice what with the rain and everything after the drought and the relevant gods should note that I am not complaining about the rain but it is crap weather for walkies and photography.
Thus we are looking at some old photos today and a couple that are just for pretty.
Historic photo of some blokes and a dingy at Woy Woy Bay about 100 years ago. Why the bloke in the 3 piece suit is wearing a 3 piece suit on a dingy expedition is beyond me. I s'pose they did that sorta thing back then.
Ocean Beach (Umina) postcard from 1924. Flogging the unsophisticated charms of Woy Woy's Ocean Beach to Sydneysiders. Nothing remains of those 2 boarding houses or the bus and the Umina Post Office now ekes out an existence in the back of a chemist.
1930s Woy Woy from Woy Woy Bay. Notice how many houses there aren't. Now the Peninsula's covered in houses. Here they're pretty much all clustered around the station.
The station is the wee white building at the end of that long jetty sticking out onto the low-tide mud flats, this side of the tracks.
The biggest building, pale roof, on the left of the road, is the old 200-seat cinema where the Woolworths supermarket is now.
The road heading towards the back of the photo from about a third of the way across from the left, is Blackwall Road on its way to Blackwall Mountain.
Umina Beach (lower left) and the Bouddi Peninsula (right) from Mount Ettalong.
Follow the beach up from the left bottom corner until it gets to a sharp bend. Follow the sand bar out to the right from that sharp bend. That's the big sandbar the ferries have to avoid as they come across from Palm Beach.
We're looking here across from Daleys Point to Blackwall Point (left, houses on Orange Grove Road) and Blackwall foreshore. That flat-topped pine tree is at the end of McMasters Road and Blackwall Road runs parallel to and behind the foreshore.
3 comments:
Love the old photos and things - really gives some perspective.
Stay dry, but if you do get wet, remember a nice hot toddy is just the thing for warding off illness.
Thank yer.
Mmm...hot steaming alcohol...
J E Parker was my grandfather. My grandmother would often slip down to the beach to catch lunch. In those days there were fish in abundance. The phones were on a party line so you could listen in to conversations if you had nothing better to do but if you missed out you could always catch up by chatting with the switchboard operator who seemed to know the details of every conversation.
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