Sometimes I wonder how some things became synonymous with beach side living. I "get" the concrete "breeze blocks" and the outdoor space which now would be called a patio or a deck, but which back then was ever so much more descriptively a "breeze-way". What a lovely term. Let's do what we can to bring it back into common use!
What I don't get is the array of clam and bailer shells, well weathered and no doubt souvenired from a reef barely five or eight hundred kilometres from here, definitely not locally sourced. I'm not suggesting anything illicit. That was "what was done" in the sixties, a time when the world would never run out of anything.
They were quite a common artefact back then, declaring in the way that signs made in China which proclaim things like "gone fishing" do today, that this house is at the beach.
Mooloolaba.
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I guess it's frowned upon today to collect them.
ReplyDelete"Frowned upon" is one way of putting it! Totally prohibited would be another. The clams in particular are a somewhat endangered beast.
ReplyDeleteHaving said that, we do have some examples of shells and bones (legally) collected in our travels - all devoid of living creatures when found though!