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The Tern Inn Owners/lessees

1. Ray Knight

Above: a Postcard of the Tuross Motel built by Ray Knight
Ray Knight then built the Tern Inn

2. Bill and Lorraine Seymour
Lorraine and Bill bought the Tern Inn. Lorraine had worked
at the Tern Inn for many years before buying the shop

Above: Looking towards the Tern Inn and Motel at the time of the Seymours

Above: View from Tern Inn circa 1960's

3. Horst and Sylvia Lerche
 Horst and Sylvia lived at Southernwood on Jellicoe Road

Above: The Tern Inn and bottle shop 1979 in the background
Bearded git in the foreground is Lei

4. Ron and Phylis Valentine
Ron and Phylis had the shop as a takeaway whilst also running the milk delivery
They sold and moved to the boatsheds to create a takeaway there (see Boatshed History)

5. Bartons/Kilbournes
(renamed Tern Inn to Quaffers)

above: Bill Barton, Joyce Killbourne, Sue Miller and George Killbourne at Quaffers

6. Warren Knight
(as Quaffers)

7. Bronwyn and Geoff Ludlow
(did not run a restaraunt and disbanded Quaffers)
they also relocated the bottleshop licence to Evans Road and then moved there to run that
as a seperate business

8. Rick Hart (leesee)
(renamed as Waffle On Icecream Cafe & Crafts)

 

9. Guenther and Barbara Ploy
(renamed from Waffle On to Ploys)

PLOYS, TUROSS HEADS, NSW

When Barbara and Guenther Ploy left their successful Blue Beat Café in Canberra they were looking for a quieter life. But when they made their plans known to local operators, they were strongly encouraged to open a restaurant to fill a vacant fine-dining niche in this part of the South Coast.

The result is Ploys, a stylish yet relaxed restaurant at Tuross Head, where Barbara and chef Terry D’Arcy create delicious dishes worth driving a country kilometre for. Barbara’s version of homemade Turkish bread, learned from Ottoman in Canberra, is delicious toasted with Ploys dreamy pate, served with herbed butter, or baked with anchovy or with parmesan and garlic.

Starters at Ploys include oven-roasted Chinese-style duck wrapped in coriander and spring-onion pancakes; prawns served sizzling in olive oil with garlic, chilli and shallot; or homemade Grand Marnier chicken liver, bacon and leek pate with warm toast and red-onion jam.
Mains include slow-cooked lamb shank with pumpkin and pine-nut risotto, fresh rocket and olives; or spaghetti tossed with scallops, prawns, chillies and fresh rocket. Tender locally grown beef might be served with a creamy parmesan mash, plus there’s always a fish of the day and pizzas. Later, you can drift into dessert paradise with a vanilla-bean pannacotta with lime and coconut syrup.

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10. Highly forgetable - leesee
renamed to The Fig and run as a cafe

 

11. Nick and Diane - Sept 2009 - July 2011
Renamed it from The Fig to the Tern Inn Cafe


12. Le Calypso - July 2011
Renamed it from the Tern Inn Cafe to Le Calypso
Henri had been operating Le Calypso very sucessfully at the
Tuross Country Club and relocated it to the Trafalger Road premises.

If you have any old photos of the Tern Inn that you would like to contribute to this history please phone 44738106