In cemeteries throughout Australia, gravestones hint at our history - tales of early settlement, unsolved murders, love lost, mystery, tragedy, health epidemics, scandal and sacrifice.
Grave Tales
reveals more than the headstone can ever convey by tracing the tumultuous journeys that lead to these final resting places.
Grave Tales: Great Ocean Road
Country - Geelong to Port Fairy
visits established cemeteries and burial places off-the-beaten-track to feature people who willingly or unwillingly were participants in events that made local and national headlines. They may have lived in the same suburbs, streets, and even the same houses as exist now, or unexpectantly came to rest between Geelong and Port Fairy.
Meet the ladies of the lighthouse who led an isolated life; the unionist shot in an affray; the stage actor whose career ended too soon; the men who sighted the fabled Mahogany Ship; the two survivors of a shipwreck that everyone wanted to see married, but it wasn't to be; the inventor of the Ute and what inspired his unusual design; and the lady who rests in a 'donated' isolated beach grave.
These are just some of the stories from the grave in the second book in the
series incorporating
Geelong, Lorne, Apollo Bay, Cape Otway, Loch Ard Gorge, Warrnambool, Tower Hill and Port Fairy.