Not Cape Paterson Revisited.

As already stated elsewhere, while on our Philip Island holiday, we returned to the mainland for a day trip and visited the coast at Cape Patterson past Wonthaggi. Cape Paterson being another of the places I have visited periodically over the past 50 odd years, first as a child with my family and later by myself and later again with my own family.

Walking down to the beach from the car park I had two different reflections come to mind. One I told you about in “Cape Paterson Revisited”. The other I will describe here.

The feeling was not like going back 50 years or so to my childhood memories of Cape Patterson, but rather of going back only 10 years or so, but to another place and another continent.

Walking down to the beach at Cape Paterson, Victoria, Australia, I was struck by the similarity to the Wild Coast Area of The Transkei in South Africa. In particular to the area around Second Beach at Port St John’s.

The similarities, on the surface at least, show that while everything is unique in its own way, every thing is also similar too, and that it is not the place that makes a memory unique in your life but the unique experiences that you have had there. That is what makes it unique, special and important to you. Taking this thought one step further, when you think of the past, what do you really think about? The Place? The events that took place there? Or the people who were part of those events?

Where are your memories now as you read this? With places or People? If places, maybe you need to revisit that place, even if only to find that it is not the same and has moved on and that you need to do the same.

If of People, and those people are still alive, maybe you can visit them and let them know that you still have fond memories of them and the fun times you all had together. If a visit is out of the question, how about a phone call, or even a letter. Think about it please. But not for too long! Thing about and then do it! Over to you: Walter