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Don’t look at the
million dollar properties on Jefferson Lane- Palm Beach
Take a walk along Jefferson Lane
Palm
Beach before it’s nostalgic past is gone and when you do walk along this
stretch try to restrain yourself from thinking about the ‘Beach Shacks’
on land worth millions…. think about the wonderful memories of ‘Brisbanites’,
local and interstate summer holidays that were drenched in family
laugher and children’s screams of delight because they are at the beach!
Walking along Jefferson Lane Palm Beach
is like walking into the past… the lane still has many old fibro houses,
beach shacks….derelict, dilapidated , ram shackled whatever term some
may use about these ‘living history structures’ they are part of the
nostalgic roots of the Gold Coast. Areas of Palm Beach still grip
tightly to the old Gold Coast as if it was lost; things would never be
the same.
However having said that,
many of these structures are disappearing, love them or hate them….yes
there are all kinds of issues and reasons for them being removed
…progress, asbestos issues etc. But in my mind I don’t see their
dilapidated conditions, I see hot summer days,
Pandanus
trees, clear blue water, running on hot sand, cool mornings, cool
northeasters, shimmering moonlight on dark waters, barmy evenings,
thunderous waves during stormy nights, salt laden air, locals wandering
across the highway with their morning tea or coffee to check out the
surf… the list could fill pages.
These memories are part of not only
Gold
Coaster’s history but also the hundreds and thousands that have paid a
visit over the decades, their own children are still coming to this
wonderful place called Palm Beach.
Walk starts at 17th Ave- walk
south to Lacey’s Lane…enjoy the walk, and then have a coffee in one of
our Cafés…..
Palm Beach unique location offers many of
the best
Gold Coast walks, access to Currumbin Creek, Tallebudgera and
Burleigh Headland National Park.
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