The touching tale of lost lovers, fish and chips, and a south coast motel

Zorba Waterfront Motel on Orient Street and Nicolas Diacomihalis, inset, with his freshly caught flatheads off the Batemans Bay promenade in the 1970s. Pictures supplied

The first Batemans Bay motel established south of the Clyde River has celebrated its 50^th birthday, along with the legacy of the hard-working Greek immigrants who saw potential in the seaside town.

If the walls of Zorba Waterfront Motel on the Batemans Bay foreshore could speak, they would describe watching a tourism town appear around them and of thousands of visiting guests from all around the world.