Dead drop

We shoot through the small village of Wandandian quite often, as we to and fro on the Princes Highway between Batemans Bay and Sydney. Today, on our way home from the Salvation Army Congress, we stopped to have a look at this old cottage. Now a private residence, it was the local post office from 1935 to 1979; a shop up the road has taken over the agency. The village (population less than 500) is said to have taken its name from the Wandandian people, traditional owners of much of the land now known as the Shoalhaven. Another version has it that Wandandian is the name of a dialect of the region's prevalent Dhurga language. It has been suggested also it is a corruption of the Aboriginal word "Wandrawandian", meaning "Home of the lost lover".