Out to the Wreck

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[Image: Mixed media amalgam of Wreck Beach]

[Audio: Jim Longstaff (interviewed by Joe Chambers) reflecting on navigating the sandy rises and swampy hallows of the track to the Wreck Beach as a boy in the 1920s. Source: Wonthaggi & District Historical Society, Oral History Recording OH-0077, recorded 12th August, 1987]

[Audio: Ricky Prior (interviewed by Joe Chambers) discusses the ritual of families walking from Wonthaggi to Wreck Beach every summer weekend through the 1910s and 1920s. Source: Wonthaggi & District Historical Society, Oral History Recording OH-0051, recorded 18th June 1982]