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Avoca beach, Avoca - Australia


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This is so beautiful - I dream of visiting Australia! Maybe for our 2nd honeymoon...hmmm...

rainingwolf - Portland , USA      5/14/2010 3:26 PM

Sydney and surrounding beaches are really lovely, lots of little cresent-shaped bays and headlands. But the water would freeze the teet off a polar bear (which is actually a great thing in the middle of summer).

Eliza - Gold Coast , Australia      10/5/2009 3:08 PM

Hi Jeff, thanks for the information. And I always thought Avoca was Avocado's wife...

JulianP - Sydney , Australia      10/5/2009 2:23 PM

No Jeff, Iim not good at vocalizing, however I do play a mean piano and "I did stay in a Holiday Inn last night". Cheers.

GeneCPart2 - Pensacola, Florida , USA      10/5/2009 1:28 PM

OK Gene, but can you sing Disney tunes? Or as Ptolemy probably sang it, "Just around the Obhoca, waiting just around the Obhoooooooooocaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa". Sorry. I clearly need time out of this office and on a beautiful beach like this one.

Jeff - Philadelphia , USA      10/5/2009 1:20 PM

Jeff, thanks for the history lesson, however I never, ever liked Claudius.

GeneCPart2 - Pensacola, Florida , USA      10/5/2009 1:17 PM

What's with all the hit-and-run people who brought this beach down to a 3 without even commenting? HAVE A LITTLE DECENCY, PEOPLE! Well, Jeff, you set yourself up for this one... it's almost like you were begging for it to happen... JUST AROUND THE RIVERBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEND WAITING JUST AROUND THE RIVERBEEEEEEEEEEEEND...

Steph - Philadelphia , USA      10/5/2009 12:54 PM

Julian, you should have superimposed a "blue lighthouse with a "smiley face" at mountains edge. This one gets *****s. This is AAA(another awesome Australian) vista. Cheers

GeneCPart2 - Pensacola, Florida , USA      10/5/2009 6:18 AM

So five stars for Claudius Ptolemaeus.

Jeff - Philadelphia , USA      10/5/2009 5:31 AM

OK, it's been a little while since we had a BeachZapping history lesson. Have any of you ever wondered where the name Avoca came from? There are towns named Avoca in many countries - including one in my home state of Pennsylvania. The original Avoca is a town in Ireland, about 60 km south of Dublin. It is believed that the name originated from a map drawn by Ptolemy (yes, he drew map of the Earth in addition to his astronomy charts). Ptolemy labeled a bend in the River Avonmore as "Obhoca". I'll need an ancient Greek scholar to tell me what this name meant - but I'm guessing something like "river bend".

Jeff - Philadelphia , USA      10/5/2009 5:30 AM
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