Even today our fishermen have better local charts than the hydrographer with precisely located rocks and obstructions which they can trawl very close to without snagging. In the Gulf of Carpentaria there are numerous rocks and reefs named after the patrol boat that hit them. The fishermen knew all of them but that information is closely guarded. My rock I dubbed ‘Two Prop Rock’ but it’s still just marked as ‘Repd 1983’. Lucky I had three props.
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