Our Phillip Island Home
- as purchased -

It's January 2002 and just 100 minutes drive from home, where Phillip Island protects Western Port Bay from the ravages of Bass Strait, we find our island retreat. It is no longer up for sale. Park the car and step up onto the front deck.

It faces north and is large and open. Lots of room to laze in the winter sun. (The sun is in the Northern sky in the Southern hemisphere.) If you stand on tip toe you can see the sails of the yachts from the local sailing club.

This photo is facing north too. You enter the living area from the front deck through sliding door at the top left of the photo. The room to the right is one of the three bedrooms.

To the right of where the previous photo was taken is the spacious, newly renovated kitchen. The window faces east to receive the morning sun. The curtain on the right covers the sliding door which exits to the back yard.

Across the kitchen bench is the eating area and the corridor to the other two bedrooms (right and in front) and the bathroom, toilet, laundry suite (to the left).

Step out through the back sliding door, firstly to a sheltered verandah on the south-east corner, then onto a huge deck which collects the sun on some part of it at all times of the day and all times of the year.

The studio is an added bonus that is yet to find its true purpose. Perhaps an additional bedroom for overflow guests. Perhaps a cubby house for the boys. Doug thinks that when he retires it will be a perfect place for his drum kit.