The search is still on.

I am back-blipping. We have not long ago returned from a few more days up in the Central Coast searching for a new home in a retirement village. We have a short list of two villages, one at Davistown and the other at Forresters Beach. Davistown is a small area on Brisbane Water and the retirement village is a 500m walk to the local wharf where the ferry that goes to Woy Woy calls in. Davistown is a quiet, little simple village with a coffee shop and a highly regarded restaurant.

Davistown is named after Ben Davis who in 1851 purchased 60 acres of land on the northern foreshore of a part of Brisbane Water called Cockle Channel. He used the land to establish his own shipyard. He later sold some of his land to his younger brothers who also established their own individual shipyards. Ben commenced shipbuilding on his land in the early 1850s and went on to build a total of 49 vessels, mainly ketches and schooners. The last vessel he built was launched just before his death in 1883.

The main photo shows the ferry wharf and the extra shows the ferry calling in on its way back from Woy Woy.