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Emily H Pelloe
Emily Harriet Pelloe
1878 - 1941
Emily Pelloe was a well-known social writer and horsewoman and died suddenly three-quarters of a mile from Waterman's Bay on the 15th April 1941.
Her descriptive writings, in particular, "A Moonlight Ride" was written on Saturday 16th February 1929, and her description of the area as she passes by the Woodman Point Quarantine Station is so incredibly definitive and colourful to the reader, and depicts the local landscape, that is Woodman Point, magnificently, therefore inclusion on this website is thoroughly appropriate.
"To ride from Perth to Rockingham is a pleasant experience at any time. On a still summer night, by moonlight, it is a joy. Knowledge of routes and roads between the city and the seaport enables Fremantle to be reached on horseback with only several short stretches of hard road. But from North Fremantle on wards there are no soft edges to the streets until well past the hill on which the war memorial stands out at night bathed in a soft flood of white light, a beautiful beacon of remembrance. I rode to Rockingham recently for a weekend in the heat of the day. Agreeable as was progress then along the beach practically all the way from Fremantle, I decided to go the next week by moonlight".
a moonlight ride
Compiled by Earle Seubert