Oh wow.   That is mum's machine exactly!!!  I learnt on that one.

No wizz bang, you beaut machine has ever trumped it.

I wish we hadn't sold it when cleaning out mum's place

Can everybody behave themselves while I'm gone?

Noooo!!  

I think it was an Empisal knitting machine that was mum's first one.

DEB

We used to catch big mud crabs on the beach at Cape Arnhem and if one threw a claw we let it go. 

One of our group caught a huge grouper and  we all howled him down to let it fo so we had to put a slim knife into it's belly to let the air out and then swim him for about 20 minutes then with one huge flick of his tail he was gone. We all felt so good about that.

We worked at Bowen years

Ago picking tomatoes.

We lived in a tent on the property

And it ran right next to the 

Don river

The boss stopped work one

Day and led us down to the

River bed which was dry at

The time.

I had no idea what was going

On he was just saying

Wait  a minute

Wait a minute. 

In a short while there was a trickle

Of water running down the dried

River bed towards us

In this trickle of water was loads

Of eel and mullet heading towards

The ocean.

We could scoop them out of 

The water and toss them on the

Sand.

We gathered heaps of fish and 

Ate them that night .

Within half an hour that dry

Riverbed had turned into a raging

Torrent of water the width of two fooball fields

Amazing memory

Great story oppy, isn't life wonderful and isn't Australia the most wonderful place on earth.