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I wholeheartedly believe everyone is a ‘beach person’, no matter how hard they fight against it. Now, I understand that locations like Bondi or Manly Beach in peak-summer are enough to turn anyone off sun, sand and waves for good (see: obnoxious crowds, waiting two hours for overpriced hot chips, bad parking etc.), but, it doesn’t
have to be that way.
I’m here to remind you that we live on an island in the middle of the ocean and every major city is within a decent, drivable distance of some of the most ~stunning~, untouched beaches on the planet. If there’s one person who knows a thing or two about spending quality time near the water, it’s beach-queen and ex-Bachie star,
Photo - Submarine art Clandestine Submarine landing party a painting by Tronson du Coudray“ the missionary painter - is the basis of my first Anzac reflections.
The art work was specifically painted for Anzac Day and is a portrayal of the Japanese landing party that, according to the Moruya Examiner Newspaper, silently slipped onto Australian soil near Browlee, Moruya on the south coast of New South Wales in 1942.
We lived in Moruya between 1992 and 2006. During those years the local newspaper ran the story of the alleged landing on two occasions, although it acknowledged that this event has no official recognition, only local oral history to back it up.