Hello from Saint Paul, Minnesota

Archie's Mum said:
Welcome from Oz C|:-)
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I love Oz! My wife's Mum -- a Brit and former Wren -- was a meteorologist for several years in Sydney after WW II. We finally got there three years ago and had a fabulous time north of Sydney, in the city, and then down in Tasmania. Now I learn we have Moors-descendant relatives who emigrated to Australia from Dorset; wish I'd known that before we visited!
 
Well, that sent me running to Google Maps to remind me of where we were! It was Diamond Beach, about 4 hours' drive north of the city (and a very sweaty-palmed drive it was, too, for a couple of Yanks trying to remember which side of the road to stay on)... we'd found a very inexpensive timeshare called Sea Shells, which was "plain vanilla" but just fine for us. The beach was not swimmable (great white lately seen just offshore...) but my spouse went down and jumped in the waves, and we walked for miles on the beach.

I have only just learned in the last few days about my Australian-immigrant Moors relatives, and so now must find out much more about them. As yet I do not even know what part of the country they went to. -- And I also just helped a Y-DNA match-cousin find a lead on Pafford/Pavord relatives who went to NZ from southern England (Somerset), likely by way of Canada. So it seems we have ties there, too. Who knew???!!!

In Tassie we were hosted by the daughter, and her partner, of my late English mother-in-law's friends from the '40s. I think the family's been there for generations: they gave us an amazing tour -- we went everywhere from Mt. Wellington, to the Museum of Old and New Art, to the Tahune Airwalk southwest of Hobart. Just fabulous.
 
Tahune Air Walk.....I stayed well back. The wind was blowing and my smart hubby decided to jump up and down. Not happy!
Diamond Beach, Forster. Just lovely. We spent our honeymoon at Forster. ;) Nice place. I have very elderly aunt and uncle in their nineties who still have a lovely home on the canals just south of Forster at Forster Keys.
I have a feeling that Diamond Beach is not patrolled so is best to stay away from the water. Although it could be now in certain spots.
 
Archie's Mum said:
Tahune Air Walk.....I stayed well back..
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Indeed. I'd had a bit of experience with cabled bridges years before on a trek in Nepal and was very glad of that on the AirWalk. Nothing quite like the feeling you're about to be lifted into the air as someone else comes down. :nailbiting:

Diamond Beach... yes: no patrols as far as we could tell. We went down to Black Head Beach for swimming.

And we went up to Port Macquarie, to the koala rescue outfit there, which was extraordinary. Heartwarming what those people do, and on a shoestring budget. That's blessed work.
 
Archie's Mum said:
If you need a hand with your Moor’s, you know where we are ;) hint, hint.......:D
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Much appreciated. I will check with my recently-found Moors cousins to see how much they already have on the Oz branch... if help is needed to go further you will hear from me... :)

First though I am in near-total-immersion with a complex Dorset line, trying to explain a Y-DNA match by tying my Pavitt step-3rd-grandfather (who may be more than a step-) to the Newfoundland Paffords, while simultaneously trying to help them find & prove their English ancestry. I may post on this over on the Dorset forum... if I can figure out how to articulate the question(s) without making everyone's head spin (as mine does when I contemplate such conundrums... do we have a head-spinning emoji? -- must check... don't see one so the headbang will have to do... :headbang: )
 
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