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'.
