Blissful childhood memories of the beach

Some of my very best memories of childhood are from our family excursions to the beach. Lazing on the sand, building sandcastles, frolicking in the shallows, surfing down the waves, eating ice cream from a cone.  All these memories are a form of bliss.  You can see a big, delighted smile on my face in all the photos.  My favourite beaches as a child were Muizenberg, St James and Boulders.

So many of my beach memories involve Gran and Gramps (Sorrell) and Granny and Grandpa (Station).  Gran and Gramps always came to the beach with us on their holidays to Cape Town, sometimes with Granny and Grandpa in tow. I have a particularly fun memory of paddling out in an inflatable boat with Gramps at Boulders Beach. Gramps always went a beautiful bronze colour in the sun. Grandpa (Station) used to take me to Muizenberg by train for long walks along Muizenberg beach which I absolutely loved. 

A tribute to Granny and Grampa Station

Memories

• Granny's Sunday "Roast Chicken" lunch with junket for dessert
• Appletizer in Noordhoek
• granda fetching us from Midway and walking us to the flat
• holidays at The Birkenhead Hotel (very special!)
• their Rondebosch flat
• the "cutlet" and anenome shells that Grandpa collected
• going to Muizenberg on the train with Gramps, then walking along the beach at a mighty pace
• walking along the coast at Hermanus
• Granny's hair net
• cycling to their flat through the Rondebosch fields
• Granspa's hankis
• washing our hands before lunch
• granny's jewellery box and ivory comb set
• grandpa listening to share prices on the radio
• their antique furniture
• gramps cluttered garage and his tools
• grampa's old mercedes
• grandpas love of "Jock and the Bushveld"
• the gold clock they gave me as a gift
• lunch at the Mount Nelson
• Grandpa's insatiable appetite (so that is where I got it!)
• Granny's singing with a trembling lilt
• their statue of the horse and boy (I still have it)
• appletizer on Muizenberg
• visiting us every Sunday with chocolate logs
• grandpa's binoculars
• grandpa's hat and kaki shorts
• pushing grandpa in his wheel chair when he got poorly and how he started opening up in his last few years

Gran earlier on

With me as a baby

Camping at Uilenskraal - memories don´t get better

Family lunches to the Mount Nelson

Family outings to the beach

Family photos

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