Rest and recreation

For as long as he can remember, Jamie Bishop has been retreating to Goolwa, the historic South Australian port town where the Murray River makes its entrance into the Southern Ocean. It’s where he holidayed from Adelaide with his parents, staying with his maternal grandparents. It’s where he learned survival skills, roaming free with mates from sun-up to sundown. It’s where he learned to swim and fish, to milk cows and to drive behind the wheel of a left-hand-drive ex-army vehicle.

These days, the summer cottage he remembers so fondly from those holidays is called River’s End. Since the COVIDrelated lockdowns, it’s become his permanent home, a splendidly appointed, extended and renovated version of the modest limestone original, which he shares with fortunate family