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Kathline Quealy has not only been dubbed the godmother of skin contact grapes in Australia, a legend of wine making on the Mornington Peninsula, creating a flurry of interest planting the the first Pino Gris and Grigio vines in Australia, Quealy Winery in Balnarring is in the Studio's extended neighborhood.

We have a beautiful beach below us at the Studio. it is not spotlessly clean or beautifully manicured, but it is wonderfully natural. The rock pools at low tide and the seaweed strewn sand give it a special character.

I had been walking on the beach early with my dog Illy. There was a low king tide and the wet sand reflected the intense blue of the sky. There were more birds on the rocks than usual and the roll of a gentle swell had the definite sound of Autumn. I walked back up the hill through the foreshore pondering the beauty of the beach early in the day and the best time to experience it.

A great start to the day is waking up in the morning to the warble of magpies, or laughter of kookaburras, perhaps a walk on the beach before a steaming hot show outdoors and then settling under the tree on the verandah for a good fresh cup of coffee.

We have two properties that, over time, we have decided to share with guests. On the surface they appear very different. No.1 William St is a stone cottage built in the early 1850’s as home for the stone mason and his family. The Studio Somers is cement sheet holiday house built nearly 100 years later.