A rugged coastline, and I walked to this beach (Hoopers Beach) each day, sometimes in the morning other times late afternoon, I saw the tide in and the tide out, always interesting.

[...Robe was named after the fourth Governor of South Australia, Major Frederick Robe, who chose
the site as a port in 1845. The town was proclaimed as a port in 1847. It became
South Australia's second-busiest (after Port Adelaide) international port in the 1850s.
Robe's trade was drawn from a large hinterland that extended into western Victoria,
and many roadside inns were built to cater for the bullock teamsters bringing down
the wool, including th 'Bush Inn' still standing on the outskirts of Robe.
Exports included horses and sheep skins and wool. The Customs House is listed
by the National Trust of Australia. A stone obelisk was built on Cape Dombey in 1852
to assist ships to navigate safely into the bay. Even so, there have been a
number of shipwrecks along the coast in the area.
An automatic lighthouse was built on higher ground in 1973.

During the Victorian gold rushes around 1857, over 16,000 Chinese people landed at Robe
to travel overland to the goldfields, as Victoria introduced a landing tax of £10 per
person (more than the cost of their voyage) to reduce the number of Chinese immigrants.
The immigrants then walked the 200 miles (320 km) to Ballarat and Bendigo.

Robe's importance decreased with the advent of railways which didn't come to the town.
It became a local service centre for the surrounding rural areas. It is still
home to a fleet of fishing boats. Especially important are the local lobsters...]
(historic facts via Wikipedia)

I weakened and finished this in oils.