You might be wondering about the name, why isn’t it called The Lakehouse, or The Shack, well many moons ago I went on a Holiday to Phi Phi Island and found this amazing resort called Zeavola. I asked what the name meant and they said “Love of the Sea.” Well, that was close enough for me when this house came along; Lake, Ocean, Sea….so I named our pride and joy Zeavola. You might see a sandstone name plaque in the garden, well one of my close friends handcrafted that for us in his spare time. Quality!

The house you are staying in is actually the original Aboriginal Sunday school for Reverend Threlkeld circa 1840s and the house next door was his Master's outhouse and the Reverend had a large house on top of Coal Point. (The previous owners to the family we purchased from, the Clarkes, raised a family with 9 children in that house and we haven’t done a thing to the house in 14 years as 2 DA’s later council won’t let us extend so at some stage, we’ll probably renovate the inside but at the moment we’re happy with our little weekender. It’s all about the view and the water.)

At the top of our driveway is an old shaft to the underground coal mines that riddle Coal Point and the Hawkesbury River sandstone reef out the front to the right of our house is all the old ballast from the ships that came up from Sydney to transport coal back in the old days…. Coals from Newcastle ring a bell!

All this history is straight from our Neighbours who live next to us on the water, Mic and Bev, a lovely older than us couple who’ve been living here for over 50 years now. If you get a chance to have a chat, and if Mic is well, he will introduce himself, he enjoys children and is always up for a sneaky vino at “happy hour!”