This pic shows Doug and Vera, neighbours of ours at the Mandalay camp site in Busselton. They are well into their 80's, very spritely and great company.
They met during the World War II. Vera says they had no time then for courtship, so they're doing it now. Doug was in the navy, Vera in the army. She was posted near to here for look-out duty , so convinced was Australia that the Japanese would invade from the West. It was her first time away from home, and she described how she and the other female recruits would cry themselves to sleep every night in their bunker.
We hired cycles today to get into Busselton. Doug teased us that if we got lost, we were to phone him and he would rescue us.
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