September 2019. On their way back from Lake Mungo, Salvatore and MaryAnne dropped into Sea Lake and stayed at the Royal Hotel. It had been taken over and done up and was, you know, pretty fancy.
Mum and dad were having dinner when he, looking over at the occupants of another table, said of the older woman sitting there, “I wonder if she’s a local?” Salv went over to ask and a moment later returned to introduce MaryAnne to Olive Nuske, who he had met as Olive Bond at Sea Lake Primary in the early 1940s.
Olive rang MaryAnne last weekend to ask how she was getting on, and said that it would be her birthday the next day, 8 February, and mum asked if she would be 84. Yes, said Olive. So she’s a month older than Salv. MaryAnne sent her a card.
Salv’s notes on the encounter:
Remembering Salv Caleo 