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CONTENTS PAGE FERRY KOALAS LANDCARE RICA SHIRE The HISTORY of our Island & surrounding District This part of the website continues to be developed
Special quilt made for the Island
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100 years of Primary school
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Koalas are arriving
Click here From to 40’s and 50’s click here Bears on Raymond Island Click Here Shire Master Plan 5c Click here A contribution by the Uebergangs Click here or scroll down More is available by viewing PRESS CLIPPINGS Photos by Bret Ward
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About our Island For the thousands of years before colonial contact the Tatungolong clan of the Gunai/Kurnai tribe hunted here and harvested the island, Gragin, for swan eggs. Between this time and the present, the island has been host to cattle leases, smallholder produce, fishing and fish smoking, the produce from which was picked up by steamer traveling daily the length and breadth of the lakes between Lakes Entrance and Sale. Much of this agricultural enterprise was reduced in the 1930s resulting in the closing of the school in 1934. The island was rediscovered after WW11 as a place for week-end shacks and holiday retreats. Its convenient isolation and rich range of flora and fauna remain attractive features worthy of protection.
The first leases were drawn up in
1856 organizing village and rural settlement, the edges of each have
been consolidated since. The first land titles for the Township were
drawn up in 1884 and for the Rural area in 1892.
The following information reflects our past; both the Island’s and the surrounding district’s More is available by viewing PRESS CLIPPINGS
The R A A F crash boat A story from David Hamilton. When he was a very little boy. David thinks it might be as much as 55 years ago or even more, his father asked him to go across in the ferry boat to buy something from the corner store on the mainland. On the jetty David dropped his mother’s purse and it slipped through a gap into the water. It floated, but out of his reach. He remembers this as clearly as if it happened yesterday, as the purse floated away the RAAF crash boat ( did you know they had a crash boat on the Lakes ? ) saw it, picked it up out of the water and returned it to David and gave him a ride over to the mainland. About the RAAF Crash boat mentioned above:
FROM= GARRY KENNER
THE RAAF CRASH BOAT.
ONE LITTLE STORY ABOUT THIS SLIPWAY AREA IS
REG MEDLING
AND SON GRAEME WOULD BE UP THAT WAY
FISHING FOR SOME DAYS GRAEME HAD MAGNET FROM AN OLD SPEAKER WITH
ROPE TIDE TO IT AND DRAGGED IT ON THE BOTTOM AROUND THE SLIP AND
WOULD GATHER TOOLS THAT HAD FALLEN INTO THE WATER. CHEERS GARRY KENNER
Here are the two only shots of the RAAF
Crash Boat (except for the Raymond Island photo in
Midge Beesley's
book at the jetty opening) No
The boat is on her slipway there in November 1952.
If these are the only pictures the RAAF have maybe someone out there in the wide world can do some publicity and see what comes up!!!
Hope we get some interest.
Cheers Garry Kenner Please contact us by email
The jetty below was known as “ The Ferry PUNT Jetty “ ( on the Paynesville side ) It was around for years ! As Garry remembers : " We used the jetty to tie our row boat up to when we had to go to the shop. The corner store was then owned by the Goss family " Garry Kenner can remember playing on the jetty when he was a little boy
A contribution by the Uebergangs
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These little RIAL gems come from David Hamilton
Four photos of our “new” ferry arriving. This ferry went into service in ‘97 Taken by the late Keith Coulter. Supplied by Marj Coulter
Editor’s note:
I found these photos in the storeroom of our hall. I have no idea
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