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Monday, March 31st Monday, March 24th PERFECT EASTER WEATHER ..... Coffs Harbour, Australia
 Top picture shows a local learn-to-scuba dive boat leaving the boat harbour, passing near the Coffs jetty. In the early 1960's the jetty had a couple of giant Queensland groper and Black Cod living in residence below. Constructed from local timbers it was used to export timber many years ago. Divers from Sea Coatings Australia may soon aid in repair of the rotting or deteriorating underwater timbers. Below picture features the boat harbour at Coffs Harbour. Copyright2008 on 24.03.08 @ 01:31 AM AEST [Coffs Harbour, Australia">link] [No Comments] Saturday, March 22nd LEGENDS SURF MUSEUM ...... Unique marine memorabilia
 Located 7km north of Coffs Harbour, just west of the Pacific Highway. Curator and owner Scott Dillion (aged 80 this year and more like 50) was spear fishing a few years before young Wally Gibbins started. Scott was a prize boxer of the Olympic games class, a speedway driver, a skin diver in the 1950's and later surfboard factory owner, designer through the 60's and beyond. Consequently today friends from all backgrounds call to update and be entertained, especially by countless shark stories and pictures. The 5-day learn-to-surf bus tours (Sydney to Byron Bay) have a pit stop at the museum during the journey north. Patron's are mostly European single girls in their 20's, experiencing rather than exploring Australia. From my observations the visitors, young and old are awe-struck with the youthful attitude and vitality shown by Scott Dillon. Scott is more than an inspiration, perhaps even having discovered his own version of the fabled Fountain of Youth. Copyright2008 on 22.03.08 @ 07:48 PM AEST [Unique marine memorabilia ">link] Friday, March 21st ROCK POOL Byron Bay and an underwater nude 1983
 Copyright2008 on 21.03.08 @ 04:34 PM AEST [Byron Bay and an underwater nude 1983">link] Saturday, March 8th KATHY TROUTT ....... Mermaid Model
 Perhaps the safest angle for nude photography is silhouette, plus the winning combo of Valerie's artistic eye and Kathy's figure. Regular readers will have already seen pictures of Kathy here. An actor-model who appeared in Skippy (The Bush kangaroo) TV films especially written for her. Kathy's talent was with getting dolphin to perform. She worked with the Hollywood film The Day of the Dolphin behind the scenes in Florida after gaining confidence and experience with a live dolphin aquarium show in London. vortex on 08.03.08 @ 11:50 PM AEST [Mermaid Model">link] POSTCARD MODELS ...... Underwater - Great Barrier Reef
 People collect postcards we know that, what about just underwater postcards from around the world? Peer Productions led the way with quality printing from their base at Cairns, Queensland under the direction of Peter Erbe (The Postcard King) who quit publishing to write his best-selling book God I Am. Copyright2008 on 08.03.08 @ 11:36 PM AEST [Underwater - Great Barrier Reef">link] Wednesday, March 5th PETER BRISTOW ......Top honour for Australian expatriate
 "A pic of me (writes Peter Bristow) at the Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach Florida receiving an award from the IGFA. (International Game Fishing Association). The Gilbert Keech Award for a life time achievement in Heavy Tackle Big Game Fishing. It was a shock/honor experience for me, I knew absolutely nothing about it until Rob Kramer, President made the announcement. It just blew me away". Footnote: When I first visited Cairns (1967 Belgian Expedition to the GBR) the entire Bruce Highway connecting Cairns to all southern cities was dubbed The Crystal Highway, piles of glass from broken car windscreens on either side of the road. The road was a single-sealed lane with rocks and gravel on both sides. When passing a vehicle from either direction, a shower of rocks thrown into the air by car tyres was expected. Laminated windscreens were not used then either. One friend broke two windscreens on his car during the same day! Getting to Cairns was therefore quite an adventure by road. Better things awaiting those who went to sea in charter boats. Big game fishing was the glamor boating sport. Three young guys were responsible for promoting the fishing to Americans able to afford the journey and charter boat fees. Peter Bristow was one of the three. Travel agencies picked-up on what was happening in Cairns and the town rapidly grew into the city it is today. Peter Bristow bailed out, first to fish Micronesia and now to Madeira, the Portuguese island off NW Africa where he runs a charter fishing business today. His original charter boat was Avalon. Copyright2008 on 05.03.08 @ 04:20 PM AEST [Top honour for Australian expatriate">link] |
