18 -19 September 2025

18 September 2025

Sale to Inverloch

Up betimes to have a good look around Sale (where, as a lad, my paternal grandfather worked for a few years before returning to Bothwell, Tas.)

A photograph of and taken by my paternal grandfather (centre) with his brother (L) taken in Bothwell about 1915

We went to where the Sale Public Cemetery was said to be to look at the "Napper graves" (see 17 September) but the cemetery had disappeared - the land is now apparently some sort of property development!

The clocktower in the Sale Mall had not disappeared!

All that remains in Sale of Cobb & Co, the legendary Australian stagecoach business 

The Port of Sale which only exists because of the 2.4 kilometre canal to the Thompson River.

See:

https://heritage.engineersaustralia.org.au/wiki/Place:Port_of_Sale

Arrived at Inverloch at about 3.00pm and checked in to our accomm.

Nothing further to report.

19 September

Inverloch to Dromana

Up betimes to have a bit of a look around Inverloch in the hope of spotting old Soaks Bloke* Viv Chopping who now resides at Inverloch. Unfortunately, a bit like the Sale Cemetery, he too seems to have disappeared!

Headed off for Dromana on the Mornington Peninsula stopping off at Kilcunda to take in the views and a very daring rock fisherman...

Arrived at Dromana and had a look at the beach and some colourful Boatsheds...

and a very adventurous windsurfer...

before checking in to the "Dromana Beach Getaway" for 2 nights.

* a former player with the University Associates Rugby Club, Hobart.