One of Wyndham’s newest residents, Kris Moller, fell in love with Australia in 1983, having sailed from his home in South Africa to the shores of Fremantle.
Three years later, he became an Australian citizen.
“I felt I couldn’t live in a racially divided country any more,” he says of his decision not to live in apartheid South Africa.
His career in IT took him around the world. In 1990 he moved to Indonesia, where he met his wife, Ervina.
“I asked her out and she gave me an address and said meet me at 9am,” he said.
“So I met her and we caught a cab and arrived at a church. I asked her, ‘Is this where you want to go?’ And she said, ‘I just wanted to see if you would follow me’.”
He has been following her ever since.
It was Ervina Moller who fell in love with the Wyndham area. She loved how easy it was to get around and identified with the area culturally.
The couple moved to the region four months ago and are building a house in Truganina.
“She said, ‘Get out of IT and start preparing for retirement’,” Mr Moller said.
So he wrote a book, Over 65 And Still In Demand, which promotes retirement as the start of something new.
At 69 years of age, he’s looking forward to writing more books and exploring Victoria with his wife.
For details of Over 65 And Still In Demand, go to www.passiontoplan.wordpress.com.
