This is (or was) the life

This is (or was) the life

Todays photo shows a pretty near perfect boating scene, any takers for location & approx date?


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13 thoughts on “This is (or was) the life

  1. It must have been exciting waking up the next day to find you’d bought half the South Island instead of half an acre on the south side of Island street.

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  2. I just looked at the bottom line — just shows i is not always the most important part of a document – I should have remembered that from the old days when we had real estate transactions where we had an association together –CHEERS — K

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  3. By the vintage of the Johnson or Evinrude on the dinghy, I’d say it has to be the later 1940s or 50s.– KEN RICKETTS

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  4. iI think it is LIDGARDS, — (Smelting House Bay), with the edge of the ramp up to the boatshed on the left along with one of theadjacent piles & the boats NERRIDES & possibly RANGER

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  5. I would guess that it’s Tasman National Park. Possibly Opposite Adele Island.
    Two boat look like Rongomau and Rainbow (Both owned by Dimmocks) so maybe late 1970s Early 1980s.

    David Lackey

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