The cache is hidden at a location where there once stood rows of shacks built along the bank of the River Murray at Goolwa. Between 1840 - 1890 Goolwa was one of Australia's most important river ports with paddle steamers towing barges travelling from New South Wales and Victoria laden with wool, grain and other produce and then returning with general supplies.
The cache is also close to BEDFORD PARK, named after the Bedford Family who were early farmer-fisher-tourist-operators in Goolwa. Frank and Ruby Bedford owned a dairy farm on the corner of Liverpool St and Quebec Street (about 200 metres from the cache) and had 70 dairy cows until 1960. Later they expanded into market gardening and ran a local milk round as well as supplying vegetables to local outlets. When he got married, Frank found milking three or four cows wasn't going to give him a living so he started fishing. From fishing came the opportunity to look at tourism. He started taking people out with him in his boat when he went fishing down the Coorong. In the winter months when there were no tourists he was a fisherman the other half a farmer-fisher-tourist-operator.
Sourced largely from http://alexhistory.pbworks.com
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