Author: philip.baskerville@gmail.com

Stradbroke Island was known to the Baskervilles as native title grounds in the 70’s, long before the Commonwealth Government made it Australian Law in...

In the 60 the only way to get to point – Point Lookout on Straddie that is – was via the day-tripping Hayles timber...

Now, there have been some pretty scary moments for me on Straddie, but the sandbank sweep on 2nd Cylinder certainly takes first prize. You...

I have had over 17,000 lunches in my life, but none will compare to those relatively few times when I shared it with my...

Cylinder Headland at Point Lookout on Stradbroke Island = hours of fun. The ever changing coastal dynamics due to the interchange of sand, tides...

Being the church youth leader, I decided one holiday period to organize a bus trip for about 40 of the young people from our...

Getting to Point Lookout Stradbroke Island in the 60s and early 70s, was not a simple case of driving one’s car onto the inter-island...

Victor was the name of the savage blue cattle dog that safeguarded his master’s property beside us at Wooloowin. We did not learn his...

Now someone has to tell this story and I am not so sure that my big sisters ever will. So I have taken it...

David’s first car was a VW. You know that now very fashionable 1968 beetle that everyone thinks is so cool. Well, he called his...