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Originally posted by Spaceshot
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Yep
You got it though I think you must have caught it early when the going was good.
I didn't go. I had seen enough already
To risky so talking for my mate on this one.
Out of Darwin.
Wages weren't crash hot in the nineties with crews having to do with a percentage.
Hours were more often brutal than not and depending on a run.(When they hit on the schools of prawns) Banana and Tiger
The bloody captains didn't think twice before they would use their boot to wake you up in the middle of the night. That was them. Rough B(*&^%$ . If you went overboard it was an accident. Quite a few did.
The Natives. Scary , They had bits missing all over then. Hands Ears arms you name it.
When the boats docked in the islands overnight. The natives would sneak on board. You could hear them walking barefoot on deck.
Slabs of booze for cartons of prawns.
West coast sharks are the big slow solitary jobs that cruise under the boat. On the east coast they were all those ones in packs and quick. Reef sharks.
Over all not worth the it unless the experience is what mattered.
Wrong end of town and probably to late in the game. ^&*()$ Captains. (Ripped of everyone)
By the nineties the word was out, they could see you coming. The game was all sewn up.
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Yeh. I was there 1971. The second year the Gulf was open to prawning. Was just the crews up from Moreton Bay mostly. Not too much pressure. And it was the Age of Aquarius. I might go and find my Kodachrome slides and have a look.
But you're right about the sharks. Water would be boiling with them following the nets up. I wouldn't go near the back of the boat.