9By the time Vince called in at the supermarket and wound his way back down the main drag, it was starting to get dark and Warrnambool was settling down for the night. After almost a year he knew his way around the streets but still felt like a stranger. All he’d known about the place was that it was on the south-west Victorian coast and over three hours west of Melbourne. Having grown up on a farm in the Wimmera, Vince was no stranger to the bush, but compared to tiny Minyip, Warrnambool was a bustling metropolis.
When he’d first driven into town last year, and passed the hardware shops, light furniture businesses and supermarkets flanking the highway, Vince had learnt from a large sign that it had a population of 32,878, all of whom promised a ‘Warm Welcome to the Visitor’. ‘SPESHILY IF
