Thanks to regular commenter Ebony, I have just finished reading Beyond The Pale by John Hooker (1998 Allen & Unwin). It’s a tough uncompromising look at early colonial life in South West Victoria, just across the border from Mount Gambier. At the beginning I thought it was set near Wannon Falls at the foot of [...]
Bushfire blame game has to stop
The blame game in respect of the Victorian bushfires has to stop. It is unhelpful to the pending Royal Commission for theories and criticisms to be aired in public before they can be properly investigated and answered. The Victorian Government has done the right thing by establishing a Royal Commission and that is the appropriate [...]
Mumbannar
Mumbannar is a small farming district near Dartmoor in far Western Victoria, about 30km from Mount Gambier. It was a thriving community once with a school and showgrounds. I’m guessing it might have had a hotel and store at one stage, and possibly a football team. Today Mumbannar is a scattering of farm houses, a [...]
Port Fairy
We stopped briefly in Port Fairy on the way back from Warrnambool. It’s a bustling place on Sunday and really filled up around 11am as people flocked to the coffee shops and cafes. At the 2006 census, Port Fairy had a population of 2599. Its main industries are tourism and fishing, and it is the [...]
Warrnambool weekend
We’ve just returned from a family long weekend visit to Warrnambool. We left after work on Thursday and rented a holiday house for three nights. It was a lovely three-bedroom house with a view of the ocean. On Friday we did some shopping, had lunch, an afternoon nap (love those), went swimming and Juliet and [...]
