Tuesday, 1 January 2002

December 2001 - January 2002

We moved in on Friday 21 Dec, and returned to Sydney on 23rd for Christmas. had our first Rosedale holiday in the new house from 28 December to 9 January, and again Jan 22 to 27th.

Sydney was surrounded by bushfires, but Rosedale Beach was a perfect boogie boarding haven that year. In the latter part of January, a bluebottle infestation. Ben got a sting - exceptionally painful.








Monday, 8 January 2001

August 2001. What happened next...

...Our friends fell in love with Rosedale.

For years I had been receiving real estate agent blurbs about houses for sale, but it always seemed an Impossible Dream. A bad photocopied page arrived one day, and I sent it off to our friends with a large question mark...next thing I knew we were off to have a look at the little fibro cottage for sale at a rock bottom price. It was badly presente inside, but look past the surface, and a 3 bedroom house 400 metres level walk from THAT beach revealed itself. And it's much more affordable to buy a half share in a house than the entire thing yourself.












The lagoon was open to the sea (relatively rare event):





Thursday, 4 January 2001

Easter 2001

For the first time ever, we stayed at North Rosedale, as guests of some friends who had rented a house there. This was a very propitious trip, because it became the catalyst for what happened next...(see next blog entry)







































Saturday, 1 January 2000

January 2000

Boules at Rosedale Beach:

The lagoon - great water flow this year:
At Boatshed beach:
Beach cricket, South Rosedale:

Nola on the deck at 31 Cooks Cres:
A hole is dug, Congo: