Population 25-ish
You can see the bay from the school room window. I was extremely surprised last week when we saw a huge commercial fishing boat pull up in the bay in front of the homestead. This is a World Heritage listed Marine Park and protected waters with extreme and rigorously enforced sports fishing limits. The fishing vessel threw out a large net and caught the entire school of mullet that used to jump out of the water in front of the homestead.
It seems that when they created the Marine Park, the aboriginal community retained traditional fishing rights. I just didn’t expect them to turn up in a whopping great trawler and grab all our leaping mullet!!!
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