the stupidity of national borders, page-35

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    Denben asks about my Wild West adventure:
    "The ice storage works, was that in Fremantle?"

    The cold-storage works was in Mt Hawthorn.
    But bags of frozen salmon head from Hunts
    Cannery in Albany (used as Cray Bait) were
    worth more (per pound) than the salmon
    in tins. When I came back East in 1970
    I crewed on a two-man Barrcouta boat
    in mid-winter in rowdy Bass Strait.
    Here are returning to Queenscliff:


    The connection with Albany in WA was the
    burley we used to attract barracouta was
    pollard and whale-oil. Times change.
    The whaling stations at Albany
    and Eden in NSW have gone.

    But I went Whale Spotting off Iceland
    in mid-winter. We saw plenty of
    whales so the Skipper shouted
    us free drinks at the Mar Bar.
    Maritime comes from 'Mar'.

    The music is an old Irish whaling shanty:

 
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