diff --git a/hibernate-spatial/hibernate-spatial.gradle b/hibernate-spatial/hibernate-spatial.gradle
index c20609ee1a..64187b3788 100644
--- a/hibernate-spatial/hibernate-spatial.gradle
+++ b/hibernate-spatial/hibernate-spatial.gradle
@@ -21,8 +21,9 @@ mavenPom {
 
 dependencies {
     compile(project(':hibernate-core'))
+
     compile([group: 'postgresql', name: 'postgresql', version: '8.4-701.jdbc4'])
-    compile([group: 'org.geolatte', name: 'geolatte-geom', version: '1.0'])
+    compile([group: 'org.geolatte', name: 'geolatte-geom', version: '1.0.1'])
 
     compile(libraries.dom4j) {
         transitive = false
diff --git a/hibernate-spatial/src/main/java/org/hibernate/spatial/dialect/h2geodb/GeoDbWkb.java b/hibernate-spatial/src/main/java/org/hibernate/spatial/dialect/h2geodb/GeoDbWkb.java
index 23e7586a7a..6fcd9b6467 100644
--- a/hibernate-spatial/src/main/java/org/hibernate/spatial/dialect/h2geodb/GeoDbWkb.java
+++ b/hibernate-spatial/src/main/java/org/hibernate/spatial/dialect/h2geodb/GeoDbWkb.java
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ public class GeoDbWkb {
 			return null;
 		}
 		try {
+
+			if (object instanceof com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Geometry) {
+				return JTS.from( (com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Geometry) object );
+			}
 			final WkbDecoder decoder = Wkb.newDecoder( Wkb.Dialect.POSTGIS_EWKB_1 );
 			if ( object instanceof Blob ) {
 				return decoder.decode( toByteBuffer( (Blob) object ) );
diff --git a/hibernate-spatial/src/main/java/org/hibernate/spatial/dialect/postgis/PGGeometryTypeDescriptor.java b/hibernate-spatial/src/main/java/org/hibernate/spatial/dialect/postgis/PGGeometryTypeDescriptor.java
index e42f188811..4bd3d967a3 100644
--- a/hibernate-spatial/src/main/java/org/hibernate/spatial/dialect/postgis/PGGeometryTypeDescriptor.java
+++ b/hibernate-spatial/src/main/java/org/hibernate/spatial/dialect/postgis/PGGeometryTypeDescriptor.java
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ import org.geolatte.geom.Geometry;
 import org.geolatte.geom.codec.Wkb;
 import org.geolatte.geom.codec.WkbDecoder;
 import org.geolatte.geom.codec.WkbEncoder;
+import org.geolatte.geom.codec.Wkt;
+import org.geolatte.geom.codec.WktDecoder;
 import org.postgresql.util.PGobject;
 
 import org.hibernate.type.descriptor.ValueBinder;
@@ -90,17 +92,23 @@ public class PGGeometryTypeDescriptor implements SqlTypeDescriptor {
 		};
 	}
 
-	private Geometry toGeometry(Object object) {
+	public static Geometry toGeometry(Object object) {
 		if ( object == null ) {
 			return null;
 		}
 		ByteBuffer buffer = null;
 		if ( object instanceof PGobject ) {
-			buffer = ByteBuffer.from( ( (PGobject) object ).getValue() );
-			final WkbDecoder decoder = Wkb.newDecoder( Wkb.Dialect.POSTGIS_EWKB_1 );
-			return decoder.decode( buffer );
+			String pgValue = ((PGobject) object ).getValue();
+			if (pgValue.charAt( 0 ) == 'S') { // /we have a Wkt value
+				final WktDecoder decoder = Wkt.newDecoder( Wkt.Dialect.POSTGIS_EWKT_1 );
+				return decoder.decode(pgValue);
+			}
+			else {
+				buffer = ByteBuffer.from( pgValue );
+				final WkbDecoder decoder = Wkb.newDecoder( Wkb.Dialect.POSTGIS_EWKB_1 );
+				return decoder.decode( buffer );
+			}
 		}
 		throw new IllegalStateException( "Received object of type " + object.getClass().getCanonicalName() );
-
 	}
 }
diff --git a/hibernate-spatial/src/test/java/org/hibernate/spatial/testing/dialects/postgis/PostgisExpectationsFactory.java b/hibernate-spatial/src/test/java/org/hibernate/spatial/testing/dialects/postgis/PostgisExpectationsFactory.java
index 9ee12891fe..e50b2b96bf 100644
--- a/hibernate-spatial/src/test/java/org/hibernate/spatial/testing/dialects/postgis/PostgisExpectationsFactory.java
+++ b/hibernate-spatial/src/test/java/org/hibernate/spatial/testing/dialects/postgis/PostgisExpectationsFactory.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import org.postgresql.util.PGobject;
 import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
 
 import org.hibernate.spatial.HSMessageLogger;
+import org.hibernate.spatial.dialect.postgis.PGGeometryTypeDescriptor;
 import org.hibernate.spatial.testing.AbstractExpectationsFactory;
 import org.hibernate.spatial.testing.DataSourceUtils;
 import org.hibernate.spatial.testing.NativeSQLStatement;
@@ -244,17 +245,8 @@ public class PostgisExpectationsFactory extends AbstractExpectationsFactory {
 	//remove redundancy with toGeometry function in PGGeometryTypeDescriptor
 	@Override
 	protected Geometry decode(Object object) {
-		ByteBuffer buffer = null;
-		if (object instanceof PGobject ) {
-			buffer = ByteBuffer.from( ( (PGobject) object ).getValue() );
-		} else if ( object instanceof byte[] ) {
-			byte[] bytes = (byte[]) object;
-			ByteBuffer.from( bytes );
-		} else {
-			throw new IllegalStateException( "Received object of type " + object.getClass().getCanonicalName() );
-		}
-		WkbDecoder decoder = Wkb.newDecoder( Wkb.Dialect.POSTGIS_EWKB_1 );
-		return JTS.to(decoder.decode( buffer));
+		org.geolatte.geom.Geometry geometry = PGGeometryTypeDescriptor.toGeometry( object );
+		return JTS.to( geometry );
 	}
 
 }