Going to Rosebud Vic next Monday 22nd Jan for a few days to chech up on some Cousins. Might as well have a good look whilst I;m there...May see if I can get a spot on the foreshore for a night or two.....And ride my Bike around and about.....Hows that for Earth shattering news ?
Certainly rivetting stuff Jimbo not to mention healthy and very very green.
Enjoy Rosebud Jimbo. I have spent many days there, not on the foreshore alas
MIL lived in the retirement village there for many years.
jules47 said
04:26 PM Jan 20, 2012
I'm excited by that news Jimbo! ha,ha,ha - Rosebud is a nice place can ride to Sorrento and also down to Portsea - and all the way out on the quarantine station - to The Rip - really good to see the big ships coming through there - when I was about four, my brothers and their mate rowed us through the rip, and around to the back beach at Portsea - my mother woul dhave killed them had she known - had my initials carved into a cave out at the back beach, but probably eroded away by now.
Expect a lot of people down at Rosebud - make sure you go out the the Rye Back beach, - and explore Sorrento - I lived in Old Melbourne Road, opposite the footy ground, in what is now a B&B, called Eastcliff - lovely old house, that had servants quarters out back.
Ma said
04:38 PM Jan 20, 2012
OH NO!!!!! A grey nomad vandal...........initials in the cave...........
Esmeralda said
07:02 PM Jan 20, 2012
My family used to camp on the foreshore between McCrae and Rosebud for for quite a few years when I was a teen. My brother even met his wife down there.
valnrob said
07:19 PM Jan 20, 2012
Please excuse my ignorance, but where is Rosebud?
Ma said
07:33 PM Jan 20, 2012
Mornington Peninsular in Victoria
valnrob said
07:38 PM Jan 20, 2012
Thanks Ma!
Ma said
07:41 PM Jan 20, 2012
You're welcome
villatranquilla said
08:04 PM Jan 20, 2012
you will probably need a lot of luck if looking for a caravan park as its the week with the Australia Day holiday. Lots of great places on the Mornington Penninsula but like previous post very popular and crowded in holiday times - good luck
jimbo said
08:48 PM Jan 20, 2012
Very Interesting comments.....The Momories of the penninsula..It;s a little pricey down that way now...I rang up the Rosebud Foreshore there are plenty of sites...Power $45 unpowered $40.....I think I'll stay at my Cousins in eastbourne Road they have offered. And ride around there with my battery driven Bike and take in the sights and sounds...... I hear some Caravan place snear Cains are only $25 per night.......
Ma said
08:51 PM Jan 20, 2012
My inlaws lived in the Village Glen in Eastbourne Road, Jimbo
Ron and Shirley said
09:37 PM Jan 20, 2012
Rosebud foreshore camping over the Christmas period.
Certainly brings back memories of the tent city of the early 1960s. It use to be wall to wall Austral tents, (the 9x9 with extensions, white walled green roof tents) such that you could not walk between the tents due to the guy ropes crossing over. Families would set up camp at the beginning of December and only pack them up after Easter. In the main just very basic camping, no 240v, just gas or kero for fridge, lighting and cooking, plus camp stretches for beds.
As a youngster would have breakfast then head to the beach, meet up with all the other kids, only to return near sunset for the evening meal. Gee they were great carefree days, filled with swimming, sunbaking, playing Cricket and Monopoly etc for hours on end.
Also had similar experiences down on the Surf Coast at Torquay in the late 60s early 70s.
We went down to Rosebud about three or four years ago on a day trip and I was surprised how deserted the foreshore camping area was in comparison to those days.
I guess the camping fees mentioned by Jimbo would be part the reason, plus it is a very different world nowadays.
jimbo said
11:38 PM Jan 20, 2012
I'll pop in Ma and say hello......Maybe Camp for a few days ha ha ah! Ask the Greens Lake mob....Ask billeeee and Michael
briche said
11:44 PM Jan 20, 2012
Hi Jimbo, just wondering how long you will be in the Rosebud area. We are currently in Tassie but returning to Rye were we have the van parked on the 5th of Feb, will be free to catch up on the 6th if you are still around.
Brian
jimbo said
11:51 PM Jan 20, 2012
Ron and Shirley. You have certainly discribed it too a tee......I will try and recapture the smells and sounds of this Generation and no doubt will have a chat to the local campers....I'm looking forward to this now......Over the Years I have been watching the Rosebud population grow and the Councils getting fatter..( Sorry about that).......Also Ron they have a huge RSL club there now for the Pokie brigade I May have a beer and little wager.
PS Helen This is me at Rosebud with my Best Mate Cess (We still knock around together.....I'm on the left this is 1972 My 21st
I am only going to be there for a couple of days..Due to my Bowling commitments....I'v been lucky enough to get a game with my old side in Pennant Making myself available for the rest of the season....That Greens lake Mob held me up some shocking...Boozing and Dancing and singing with Jonathan all time consuming LOL.....Don't know what happened to my Picture I'll try again
They aren't there any more Jimbo, they've gone to "their reward" as they say.
Esmeralda said
01:41 AM Jan 21, 2012
jimbo wrote:
PS Helen This is me at Rosebud with my Best Mate Cess (We still knock around together.....I'm on the left this is 1972 My 21st
Jimbo, in 1972 I turned 21 and was married and pregnant - I think I stayed on the foreshore with my parents for a few days. I joined them for a couple more years with my daughter but the fun of the 60s, 70, 71 was gone by then. It would have been in around 1975 when the family started going to Portarlington foreshore.
Helen
Dougwe said
03:36 AM Jan 21, 2012
Very earth shattering news jimbo, I'm sure you will love it down that way My SD and grandchildren live there. I hope you can get a site on the foreshore, I am going to do that one day. Expect big crowds next week down that way.
jimbo said
07:14 PM Jan 21, 2012
Dougwe. I will stay with the relations I reckon...I actually only need my bed and and Computer i don't need to sit on the foreshore.....I believe it's to expensive..Though I can afford anything I just don't want to give it to them.....As Esmaralda knows I spent many Years on the foreshore Ps Helen I made a blue in 1972 I was 32 not 21 (Idiot)
Happywanderer said
07:36 PM Jan 21, 2012
Jimbo, I wouldn't have guessed you were 72 this year. Gosh you look no older than me, lol
Going to Rosebud Vic next Monday 22nd Jan for a few days to chech up on some Cousins. Might as well have a good look whilst I;m there...May see if I can get a spot on the foreshore for a night or two.....And ride my Bike around and about.....Hows that for Earth shattering news ?
Certainly rivetting stuff Jimbo not to mention healthy and very very green.
Enjoy Rosebud Jimbo. I have spent many days there, not on the foreshore alas
MIL lived in the retirement village there for many years.
Expect a lot of people down at Rosebud - make sure you go out the the Rye Back beach, - and explore Sorrento - I lived in Old Melbourne Road, opposite the footy ground, in what is now a B&B, called Eastcliff - lovely old house, that had servants quarters out back.
OH NO!!!!! A grey nomad vandal...........initials in the cave......
.....
My family used to camp on the foreshore between McCrae and Rosebud for for quite a few years when I was a teen. My brother even met his wife down there.
Mornington Peninsular in Victoria
You're welcome
My inlaws lived in the Village Glen in Eastbourne Road, Jimbo
Rosebud foreshore camping over the Christmas period.
Certainly brings back memories of the tent city of the early 1960s. It use to be wall to wall Austral tents, (the 9x9 with extensions, white walled green roof tents) such that you could not walk between the tents due to the guy ropes crossing over. Families would set up camp at the beginning of December and only pack them up after Easter. In the main just very basic camping, no 240v, just gas or kero for fridge, lighting and cooking, plus camp stretches for beds.
As a youngster would have breakfast then head to the beach, meet up with all the other kids, only to return near sunset for the evening meal. Gee they were great carefree days, filled with swimming, sunbaking, playing Cricket and Monopoly etc for hours on end.
Also had similar experiences down on the Surf Coast at Torquay in the late 60s early 70s.
We went down to Rosebud about three or four years ago on a day trip and I was surprised how deserted the foreshore camping area was in comparison to those days.
I guess the camping fees mentioned by Jimbo would be part the reason, plus it is a very different world nowadays.
I'll pop in Ma and say hello......Maybe Camp for a few days ha ha ah! Ask the Greens Lake mob....Ask billeeee and Michael
Ron and Shirley. You have certainly discribed it too a tee......I will try and recapture the smells and sounds of this Generation and no doubt will have a chat to the local campers....I'm looking forward to this now......Over the Years I have been watching the Rosebud population grow and the Councils getting fatter..( Sorry about that).......Also Ron they have a huge RSL club there now for the Pokie brigade I May have a beer and little wager.
PS Helen This is me at Rosebud with my Best Mate Cess (We still knock around together.....I'm on the left this is 1972 My 21st
Briche.
I am only going to be there for a couple of days..Due to my Bowling commitments....I'v been lucky enough to get a game with my old side in Pennant Making myself available for the rest of the season....That Greens lake Mob held me up some shocking...Boozing and Dancing and singing with Jonathan all time consuming LOL.....Don't know what happened to my Picture I'll try again
They aren't there any more Jimbo, they've gone to "their reward" as they say.
Jimbo, in 1972 I turned 21 and was married and pregnant - I think I stayed on the foreshore with my parents for a few days. I joined them for a couple more years with my daughter but the fun of the 60s, 70, 71 was gone by then. It would have been in around 1975 when the family started going to Portarlington foreshore.
Helen
Very earth shattering news jimbo, I'm sure you will love it down that way My SD and grandchildren live there. I hope you can get a site on the foreshore, I am going to do that one day. Expect big crowds next week down that way.
I will stay with the relations I reckon...I actually only need my bed and and Computer i don't need to sit on the foreshore.....I believe it's to expensive..Though I can afford anything I just don't want to give it to them.....As Esmaralda knows I spent many Years on the foreshore
Ps Helen I made a blue in 1972 I was 32 not 21 (Idiot)
Gosh you look no older than me, lol