Memories Chapter 05: Blackrock Beach
Having been highly trained by British Telecom in London as a specialist telecommunications technician, the job I found myself in Melbourne did not challenge me too much and as such became a bit of a breeze as far as time allotted to do a job was concerned.
Here I installed mainly intercom systems which did not stretch my abilities too far. Each install I was given was allocated a particular number of hours to complete and generally, I would have completed them in half to three quarters the time allowed. I would generally then take a day off and then go back to my headquarters on Racecourse road, North Melbourne to get another job given to me the next day, still having booked less hours than had been available. This made me very popular with our control staff as most of the other guys took as long as they were allocated.
I soon worked out though that if I was to also stay on good terms with the other technicians, I couldn't go back any earlier as this would surely show up their real work rate. This meant that most weeks I would get at least one day off to do as I pleased.
On one such day I decided to give the EH Holden a good wash as it had been a while since it had been cleaned and polished properly. I had almost finished it, just giving the chrome work a final once over when Liz walked down from her flat towards me with a basket full of washing that she was about to hang up on the communal Hill's Hoist that stood at the end of our block of units below our unit.
"Got the day off, Steve?" she asked.
"Well not officially," I replied.
"I can't go back into the office until tomorrow, otherwise the other techs will give me a hard time."
I went on to explain my time situation with her which she listened to with the comment,
"Yeh, over here, the guys are a lazy bunch of bastards but I suppose that's just the way it is in Australia."
I continued to do my polishing while Liz wound down the hoist and started to peg her wet clothes on it. She was wearing a full sarong and from the looks of it, not much else. It was not long since our expedition up the beach at Summers and memories came flooding back as I watched her.
"Anyway, how comes your'e home on a Thursday?" I enquired.
"My rostered day off," she replied.
Not having heard this term before I asked to explain what it meant and she went on to educate me that public servants in the employ of the Victorian Government only had to work a nine day fortnight so every other week they got a rostered day off or RDO as it was better known.
"Sounds pretty cushy if you ask me, but I suppose I get much the same thing, only it's not really rostered like your's."
As she stretched up to peg her clothes I couldn't help notice that she had picked up a pretty good tan on her shoulders the week before and I commented on it to her.
"Thanks, I'm really pleased with it and it's the first time ever that I didn't get total bikini marks, look."
Facing me she undid the loosely tied knot at the top of her sarong and pulled the front down to reveal those beautifully big, firm and now pleasantly tanned breasts.
"I think I'm losing my colour a bit now though, what do you think?" She asked.
"They're lovely, yes very nice," I replied.
"Well, what do you think, my boobs, are they still a nice brown?"
"Oh yeah, I see, well I suppose they could be a few shades browner." I mumbled almost incoherently, still amazed that she was showing them to me here and now out in the open.
"Hey, do you fancy heading down to the beach a bit later, you know, that is if you've got nothing more you have to do?" she asked pulling her sarong back up.
The idea caught me by surprise but I couldn't think of any good reason why not to take her up on her suggestion.
"Yeh that would be a good idea, I was only going to catch up on some reading I had to do anyway. Where do you fancy going? Maybe we should go down to a local beach as it's a bit far to go down to Somers for just a few hours, what do you think?".
"Sure, we can go down to Blackrock, I believe that's not too far away. We can use my car as I need to give it a run to charge the battery up a bit. What say we leave in about forty five minutes, that will give me time to do a few things and get my stuff together."
Liz picked up her now empty basket and strolled back towards her unit, leaving me to finish off the rest of my polishing.
Liz's car was an old Volkswagen beetle, off white in colour.
She got the bus to work most days, only using the car during the week on the days that she attended college so most of the week it just sat there not getting much use. This was probably the reason that the battery was always going flat and many a time I had to give her a push down the road to help her bump start it.
I packed all I thought I would need in a small ruck sack and met Liz out the front dead on time. I had changed into a clean pair of shorts and a tee shirt but she was still dressed in her sarong as before. I had never been to Blackrock before and I soon found out that neither had Liz but it seems that one of her close friends recommended it to her as a good place to go midweek, so we had no idea how long it was going to take to get there.
Liz was a very good driver for a girl, quite fast but maybe just a bit too aggressive when it came to not giving way at to the right at junctions. Either way it took about half an hour to arrive at our destination, being further south along the bay than the closest beach to where we lived. I was surprised to find how remote it seemed to be. Unlike the suburban beaches where the road came up close to the actual beach, there was a virtual greenbelt of perhaps a hundred yards of vegetation before the track brought you out onto the sand. You had to go down a wooden stairway as there was a small cliff at the rear of the beach. This part of the bay was intersected by rocks jutting out from the small cliffs, forming several small individual bays. These rocks were formed from a black toffee rock type of base and a little bell rang in my head as to how the beach probably got it's name. We walked around the first set of rocks and made camp pretty much in the middle of the beach between the two headlands. There were only about half a dozen people on the whole one hundred yard stretch of beach besides us, and only one other girl, with a guy further along. She was sunbathing topless and I couldn't help but notice that except for one who we had passed, most of the guys there, who all seemed to be by themselves weren't too far away from where she was laying. Being a work day in the middle of the week, it probably wasn't too surprising that there weren't too many people there. We both got out our towels and Liz removed her sarong to reveal that she was only wearing her leopard skin bikini pants underneath. I took my shorts off and got my togs out of the rucksack, placing a towel over me to get changed into them.
"A bit shy are we today?" Liz commented inquisitively.
"Well, this doesn't seem to be a nudey beach you know, so when in Rome, do as the Romans do," was my well rehearsed reply.
Looking around, there was only one person nude on the beach and that was the guy who was with the girl so I didn't feel too bad about keeping my togs on. Liz rubbed sun oil all over her front, her nipples retaining their normally hard posture, and asked me to do her back for her. I knelt behind her and as before I could see her generous boobs from behind. Remembering the previous occasion I did this, I was careful not to let my hand wander this time, making sure only to touch her back and neck. It seemed really strange being alone with a semi nude girl in a situation such as this as this was probably the first time this had happened since well before I was married. She in turn did my back for me, me laying on my front.
"You've still got a good colour on you, you know, it seems a shame to get cosy marks again, why don't you take these off as well?" she asked pulling them down slightly and rubbing lotion over my now half exposed bottom.
"No, I don't think so, this doesn't look like a nudist beach to me and we could get into trouble if anyone complains,