Why the long face? You should be celebrating
It was 20 years ago that one of Australia's greatest thoroughbreds, Saintly, won the Cox Plate and Melbourne Cup, so when this pint-sized look-alike chestnut pony came along weeks later he was given the same name. That's six-year-old Henry Pearce pictured on him, and being young-and-old represents an amazing bond with the Victor Harbor Riding Club at Scott Grounds, Bacchus Dr, … [Read more...] about Why the long face? You should be celebrating
The Carp Lady
Ask almost anyone with the slightest knowledge on fishing about European carp and they'll say you've got the letters jumbled. They laugh, then scorn the village idiot who in the 1940s introduced this fish that now clogs our dear Murray. The Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia lists them as freshwater pests, and there are moves to eradicate them with a … [Read more...] about The Carp Lady
The memory collector
Liz Cooper runs the Elephant's Trunk shop in an arcade off Ocean Street, Victor Harbor, and in many ways she is rarer than its namesake, an elephyas maximus. The difference is that she has a longer memory. For 40 years she has sold old wares that seemingly an elephant would also struggle to remember us using, but most of all Elizabeth Ellen Cooper, OAM, aged 82, and at 4ft … [Read more...] about The memory collector