TasTour06-25

The old Bide-A-Wee Cafe at Eaglehawk Neck.

It used to be sump-oiled vertical board. My family stayed there many times, including the Easter Flood of ‘62 when it didn’t stop raining. We sometimes minded the Cafe when ‘Uncle Bob’ and Aunty ‘Sal’ Mills had time out.

Bob used to catch the biggest crayfish you ever saw off the rocks just below the road. All cooked up with hand cut chips on a wood-fired stove and served with salad, fresh bread and butter curls. It impressed me as a child.

Loved sleeping there, as you could hear the surf at night.