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29/10/2006: "TATHRA ....... spear fishing catch January 1964"
We called at Tathra on the way back from South Australia. Bob Grounds noticed all the abalone and soon found a buyer in Sydney, and so began the commercial industry that exists today.
Had the weather been more favorable we would have explored Gabo Island in Victoria where the abs were even more plentiful and larger - but that is not the way it happened. Gabo Island was discovered by ab-divers a couple of years later.
