Granny's Grave

We try to walk along the beach near our house at least every other day. There are really fantastic vistas along the Lady Bay beach. We regularly see surfers, cyclists, and dog walkers. We saw whales on our very first walk but none since then. 

The boardwalk is 5.7 kilometers from one end of the bay (the mouth of the Hopkins River) to the other (The Breakwater). We are told that you can walk the beach westward all the way up to Port Fairy, which would take most of a day. Andy has put it on his bucket list. 

We probably already have multiple pictures of the same view and most of them look like this. We access the boardwalk about mid-point of the bay.

The bay is famous for its shipwrecks back in the day, so there are different signs along the path describing different historical wrecks. 

The other day on our walk we encountered “Granny’s Grave” which is a spot we had heard mentioned before. It’s the gravesite, right along the beach walk, of the first white woman to die in Warrnambool when the settlement was only a year old. An intriguing site.

 

The inscription reads:

Granny's Grave

In Memory of Mrs. James Raddleston

The first white woman buried in Warrnambool

Died 1848

Erected by the town council in 1904