Pitt Point Cottage, a Scotland Island home with private beach, has been listed for sale with Lachlan Elder at LJ Hooker Mona Vale issuing a $4m guide.
The beach was the location where the former prime minister Bob Hawke and his biographer, Blanche d’Alpuget announced their love in a 60 Minutes interview filmed in early 1995 on the island’s northernmost tip.
Viewers have likely never forgotten the scenes of Blanche applying suntan lotion on Bob on the beach, while staying next door at the house known as Pitt Point, a Ken Woolley-designed retreat built by Brian Pettit.
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Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke with new love, author Blanche D’Alpuget on holiday. Pic Courtesy “Sixty (60) Minutes” TV Program.
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The celebrity couple were reputedly paid $200,000 by 60 Minutes, in association with Woman’s Day, which had then dressed in white bathroom robes.
Hawke and d’Alpuget married in July that year at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Double Bay, after he had divorced Hazel, in a relationship that lasted until his death in 2019.
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Living it up. Picture: 60 Minutes
Sun lotion time. Picture: 60 Minutes
The happy couple. Picture: 60 Minutes.
Accessible only by boat, the three-bedroom, two-bathroom 3 Florence Terrace, Scotland Island offering comes with a two-storey boathouse, one of the largest on the island.
Pitt Point Cottage, which last sold for $1.42m in 2010, sits on a 716 sqm parcel with 29m of waterfrontage including the beach and lawn. There is a shared jetty.
Elder sold the adjoining Pitt Point at 5 Florence Terrace in 2022 for $4,250,000.
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Pitt Point Cottage, a Scotland Island trophy home with private beach has been listed.
It was the location where Bob Hawke and Blanche d’Alpuget announced their love in a 60 Minutes interview filmed at the home in 1995.
Incredible outlook.
Inside the home.
Elsewhere on the Pittwater, the 12,600sq m Marara, Avalon Beach estate, has returned to the market. McGrath agents James Baker and Kon Stathopoulos have $40m to $44m hopes for 96 and 98 Cabarita Road, and also for 100 to 104 Cabarita Rd.
Mortgage Choice co-founder Peter Higgins had thought he’d sold in 2023 to interests associated with developer Sammy Soliman, but it did not happen.
Meanwhile landscaper Jamie Durie pulled his Avalon Beach waterfront from its scheduled weekend auction.
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