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Meet the residents of Little Bay Apartments

Meet the lovely residents of Little Bay Apartments who create a warm and welcoming community in the village.

With shared interests and passions bringing them together, the residents stay active, connected and full of life. Their vibrant community is as welcoming as it is empathetic, creating a space where everyone feels at home.

Paul leads a happy and fit life at the village

Dr Paul, a general practitioner, moved to Little Bay Apartments while still working part time as a GP. A great advocate of leading a fit lifestyle, Paul has always led an active life. From taking part in many marathons and triathlons since the 1970s, to cycling and swimming since over 40 years, he has been on the move always. Although he’s scaled back from the major distances he used to cover, he says, “I still get on the bike twice a week and do about 45 or 50 km with a couple of friends. I’ve done about 19 marathons and 33 City-to-Surfs and a bit of this and a bit of that.” Paul believes that moving to Little Bay Apartments has helped him maintain his active lifestyle: “This area is really flat, it’s so easy to get up and go for a walk. Even if you’ve had a hip or knee replacement, there’s nothing stopping you from getting out.”

Paul lives with his wife in a three bedroom apartment, "We have views over the golf course and the ocean. And a balcony front and back. The lounge room has almost one full wall of glass with sliding doors. At certain times of the year, you can see the whales breaching as they're going down south. You can watch the yachts on the harbour on Boxing Day. It's a great place."

Initiating Men's Night In

Not one to stop at anything, Paul also started the Men's Night In, he recalls, "You hear about the ladies having a night out and I thought it would be nice to get together with the gentlemen here and have a talk and a laugh. Everybody seems to enjoy it. Even the wives say it's a good thing because it gets their husbands out rather than them just sitting in front of the TV."

Paul continues, "We meet on Tuesday evenings once a month, sit at a table, prepare soup, order takeaway pizza from one of the nearby restaurants and have sweets. After that, we go into the theatre in the village and watch a movie. An action movie, usually. Something with the likes of Samuel L. Jackson or Denzel Washington or Bruce Willis. We've got quite a following now, with about 26 on the list. I print out personal invitations for everybody and pop them in the letterbox about a week or so before."

For someone who loves to stay healthy and fit, Paul talks about his love for food, "I like to eat out occasionally, though I don't go overboard and try to maintain my weight. All I can say is It's lucky we have our Men's Night Ins only once a month, otherwise I would be eating pizzas so often, which by the way I really can't resist."

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