Matheson Family

Broulee 2nd Store, Seaview Caravan Park and the small Ampol garage. The building also housed a residence.

Ken Matheson recalls:

With my sister Christine, my mother Monica and her partner, we moved to Broulee in late 1969. The family operated the Broulee second store, and the adjacent Seaview Caravan Park which was where the Broulee Boulevard is today.

From behind the shop looking north from the caravan park.

Christine and I attended the old Moruya High School, which was situated behind the old post office. In 1970 we moved to the new high school at its present location.


We were picked up in the old blue bus by Len Carter. He would pick up from Broulee, then pick up the Mossy Point kids, then the kids from Illawong and take us to Moruya. Coming home was the reverse.  When the bridge over Tomaga River was built, Pryor's bus service from the Bay took over. It was never the same, as the kids from the Bay hated the kids from Mossy Point and Broulee because we used to surf all the time.

Athol Reid lived two streets behind us and moved to The Oaks when the caretaker's cottage was built.


Christine and I used to spend a lot of time at The Oaks. Athol used to supply us with fresh cream from the dairy there, it was between the cottage and the river.


I can remember spending a lot of time turning the long handle of the milk and cream separator.


The milk we drank from the dairy was neither pasteurised nor homogenised and tasted better for it.



Ken left Broulee in 1972.

Behind the amenities block to the rear street (Smith St).

Vacant land north of the shop.

Looking south towards Carters' store.

From the sand dunes in front of the shop looking towards Mossy Point.

Photos on this page are courtesy of Ken Matheson.