SEA SOARING UPDATES Firstly, an update on an article I wrote a few weeks back titled, ‘Have You Been Hooked’. Gerry Pateman, long time fisherman out of Gracetown, flicked me an email outlining how … [Read more...]
HAVE YOU BEEN HOOKED?-published in Augusta/Margaret River Mail 13/9/2017
HAVE YOU BEEN HOOKED? If you’ve done a lot of fishing, you may well have been ‘hooked’ one day, or quite possibly hooked someone else. Not pretty and depending on where the hook enters, it can be … [Read more...]
SIBLING CONNECTIONS-published in Augusta/Margaret River Mail June 28, 2017
SIBLING CONNECTIONS While running a skipper’s course for some fourteen year olds recently we were chatting about school, families and fishing stories. When asked about brothers and sisters, one boy … [Read more...]
BOATING BLUNDERS-published in Augusta/Margaret River Mail 12/4/2017
BOATING BLUNDERS I recently started reading a book with the self explanatory title, ‘Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories’, by well known writer and performer, Bill’ Swampy’ Marsh and it brought … [Read more...]
ON A NOT SO GOOD FRIDAY NIGHT-published in Augusta/Margaret River Mail 30/11/2016
ON A NOT SO GOOD FRIDAY NIGHT Whenever I am delivering a skipper’s course and start discussing the benefits of having a safety barrel to store essential safety items, I am drawn to my own … [Read more...]
Guardians of the Coastline-published Augusta/Margaret River Mail 14/9/16
GUARDIANS OF THE COASTLINE It was great to see the Margaret River Volunteer Marine Rescue Group highlighting some key boat safety messages in this newspaper last … [Read more...]