Back when you could chuck in a line and catch a real fish 🙂

Hard to get a good photo off a photo, this is the clearer digitised version.

BUMP.

This is the before photo of my grandparents home ( I posted a pic of the home as it is now in the NOSTALGIA thread)

My grandparents in the front yard.

Going to the loo after a bit of rain on the plain but not in Spain got your feet wet.

Good pic and great rain not in  Spain on the plain.....I simply loved old prop clotheslines....looks like a good drying day..... 

The blokes with the punt(?), what are they floating ca04? is it a pump?  and can I see a dog?

DEB

The boat is a Canadian canoe, cane & canvas, flat bottomed. Photo is Longreach Qld.

There is a dog & a person in the canoe with some groceries & I am about to get in.

It is confused by the car,Willies Falcon Knight, in the background.

Further in the background is my Grandmother's place & we are taking the groceries there.

She refused to move out as"the water is not inside yet".

I will put on a photo of her place.

Ron

Deb

If you go to Gran's Place (new post) you can see where went.

I tried to find a better picture of the canoe but it is mislaid at

present.

flashie this is about the only other pic I have of that area.....couldn't figure out how to email it lol..D'oh.

but it does fit into "back When".

Thanks anyway Soul.

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@punch*drunk wrote:

Back when you could chuck in a line and catch a real fish 🙂

 

 

Hard to get a good photo off a photo, this is the clearer digitised version.

 

 

 

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I probably should have told the story of this photo.

The one on the right is my grandfather and it was taken on board the HMAS Hawkesbury just after WW2.

In his words........"On one trip up north two fishing mates and myself had a ten bob ($1)  bet  on  who  would  catch the  biggest  fish  between the time we left Sydney to go up north until we returned, in about six weeks time. This I won with a  24 kilo groper type fish. My mate, Bob Richter, caught a

much bigger fish but it was bitten in half before he could get it inboard. Tough luck! My fish was cut up and cooked for the crew but it was so tough as to be inedible. I think Bill still owes me for that bet…"

Back then they didn't have a spin cycle.