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The Spinnaker Reach apartments occupy an enviable position at the water's edge in the centre of Batemans Bay. In the heydey of the timber industry in the region, a busy sawmill stood on the site; before that, it had for centuries been an Aboriginal shell midden. A friend from our Canberra years once owned one of the apartments, and kindly allowed us the use of it for holidays a couple of times, feeding our liking for the town which led to us eventually retiring here. Our friend has written his memoirs, which he plans to publish as a limited-edition book for distribution among his sizeable extended family. He mailed the manuscript to me this week after asking me to run my editor's eye over it. I must say, from an initial quick thumb through, that he has done a remarkably good job.