Worked on a 20 meter fishing boat out or Carnarvon in 1987 , caught groper and other fish in cages and hauled them in and put them in ice , wanted to work in the mines but did not have any contacts at the time and they said you had to go back to Perth to do the applications and I was going North , ended up working on building the new Air Force base at the time at Tindal South of Katherine .