This was our first time at Sussex Inlet. Caroline was six and the twins were still five. The rain lasted only for one day. After this we had beautiful summer weather again. When our son Martin came to visit with his wife Elizabeth the Inlet looked gorgeous in lovely sunshine.
It was March and in July Martin and Elizabeth had their first child, a boy named Tristan. After daughter Monika’s twins, Tristan was to be our third grandchild. The following grandchildren were all girls.
After having experienced Sussex Inlet for the first time in 1985 we went back there lots of times. The children and grandchildren always loved it. Only our first born child, daughter Gabriele, who became a quadriplegic in 1961 after she had just turned four. this daughter was never able to join us at Sussex Inlet because she needed an Iron Lung to sleep in for the night. Just recently she did get used to a more modern machine. This new machine should be easy to transport. Knowing our adventurous daughter we wouldn’t be surprised at all if she took to going somewhere on holidays once she did get more used to this portable respirator. In any case it is great news that she finally managed to get rid of the Iron Lung which put a lot of restrictions on her. Gaby tells us her breathing is much better now with the new machine. But back to our visit to Sussex Inlet in 1985.
We were happy that our youngest daughter had the company of the twins. The three of them did get on very well together. When people saw us with the three of them, they often thought they were triplets! The twins would ring their mum from a public phone near the office of the campsite. The place was still called a ‘camp’ but it had newly built units which could accommodate up to eight people each. In March 1985 the unit we were in had been built just a few months ago. Everything looked brand new. The best thing about Sussex Inlet was that it was very secluded. We called it our little paradise.
- On the right our son Martin
- Martin with his wife Elizabeth
- Martin keeps the three children in the boat happy
- Does anyone want to play ball with Grandma?
AuntyUta 
Hi Uta. I’ve been more off the computer than on lately and I’m trying to catch up. I think I’ve read the Sussex posts out of order but am enjoying all the lovely photos nonetheless. Hope you’re well.
Thanks for your comment, Pat. I am glad you enjoyed the photos. I spent quite a few hours getting them out of their respective albums, scanning them and then inserting them into the different posts. Yesterday there was some trouble with the internet. A few times the internet was disconnected. Just like that. Luckily I didn’t lose any of the writing or inserted photos. Everything automatically ended up in draft and I could find it after the internet had been restored. I did several blogs yesterday because I wanted the pictures out of the way and put them back into their albums.
I realize now that with the amount of pictures we kept over a lifetime it’s a daunting task to want to publish them in blogs, even if I select only the important ones, the ones I think my descendents might like to see. The pictures in the albums are more or less sorted by dates and not by subject. So if I want to publish about a certain subject, it’s necessary that I go through any number of albums and find the wanted photos amongst hundreds of other ones!
I find this winter here in Australia rather cold. Lots of people seem to have to do with colds. Peter and I try to stay away from crowds as far as possible. So far we managed not to get sick with a cold. But I am looking forward to some warmer weather.
I think you are a braver soul than I am to take on this project. It would overwhelm me, I think. It’s especially hard when the internet doesn’t cooperate.
As to the weather–it seems to be a season of extremes this year. Our summer has been extraordinarily hot these last few days. We’re expecting 100 degrees F (that’s 38 C according to my chart) Friday and Saturday. Having grown up in the mountains, I never get used to this heat and humidity that we have here in Charlotte. I wish I could send a few degrees of our heat your way so you could warm up a bit. And so I could cool off a little. 🙂
This 1985 blog should really have been the first one, Pat. I ended up with the year 2000. If bloggers go to my last blog, it’s the one of 2000 and then they go back to 1995, 1993 and so on. Most bloggers probably wouldn’t start with 1985. Maybe I should have started with 2000, then 1985 would have been the last one and bloggers would have been able to read the last one as the first one. I don’t know, does this make sense?
I am sorry if this is a bit confusing.
Hi Uta. I do understand what you’re saying but I don’t really think it matters which order you have them in, I enjoy them in any order. The important thing is to record them for your descendants. I appreciate your sharing them with the rest of us.
It’s a pleasure to share memories and pictures, especially when I get lovely responses like yours. Thank you so much, dear Pat.