Reply With QuoteInteresting snippet of history there des, thanks for posting.
Interesting crew as well
Looks like the SWB was carrying a load, hope they dried it out OK
thanks too for the link to the 25 pages of photos on the flickr site
Master
SupporterJust found a couple of interesting Pics on a flickr set about rescuing wildlife stranded by the damming of the Ord River. Malcolm Douglas and Harry Butler both appear in the set.
1971-72 - Operation Ord Noah - With WA Museum Workers - Identified in Caption 1 - KHS-2014-140-b-P-D-01-2 by Kununurra Museum, on Flickr
1971-72 - Operation Ord Noah - Follow the Sun - Matchbox Ck deeper than Dave Oldmeadow thought - 2 - KHS-2014-140-b-P-D-15-2-Crop by Kununurra Museum, on Flickr
Go to https://www.flickr.com/photos/khs-mu...h/33844038453/ to view the whole album, interesting stuff for those who grew up watching 'In the wild'
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Interesting snippet of history there des, thanks for posting.
Interesting crew as well
Looks like the SWB was carrying a load, hope they dried it out OK
thanks too for the link to the 25 pages of photos on the flickr site
TopicToaster
Yes, thanks for posting those photos. Anyone know if those tinnies are De Havilland Trojans - they look like it.
Cheers......Brian
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Do you know something of the De Havilland tinnies? I had a 14ft with a 40hp merc on it at one stage....never knew much about their history.Originally Posted by Bearman
TopicToaster
I still have one, it's a 12ft De Havilland Seabird. Goes extremely well with a 25hp Johnson on the back. They have a flared bow a bit like the Quintrex of the same vintage. Those Trojans were about 18ft I seem to remember and extremely strong even if they were riveted.
Cheers......Brian
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Wizard
Yeah mine was a good boat, used to take it into the tasman sea. Just had to bail it out now and then, as the rivets let water in.
Master
SupporterLots of great pictures there, I think this is one of my favourites.Interesting snippet of history there des, thanks for posting.
Interesting crew as well
Looks like the SWB was carrying a load, hope they dried it out OK
thanks too for the link to the 25 pages of photos on the flickr site
1971-72 - Operation Ord Noah - Harry Butler brings King Brown to boat 2 - KHS-2014-140-b-P-D-05-2-Crop by Kununurra Museum, on Flickr
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SubscriberI remember this bloke getting crucified by the greenies for daring to work for the miners. Never mind that he was there to help rehabilitate mined country. Never mind that he knew about a thousand times more about the bush than his critics.Lots of great pictures there, I think this is one of my favourites.
Agree, great photos.
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Would have been a great job to be involved with.
Lovely country in that part of the Kimberley... Its amazing what got caught behind the dam wall, all sorts still living above Argyle dam wall...
I heard a lot of stories about the country under the water and about special places that my friends can no longer go to...
"Harry Butler!", a friend of my families, went to the same school and knew Haryy, boy did he hate his guts.. Called him the biggest hypocrite he knows...
Apparently Harry use to bring animals to school and torture them... would catch skinks and then kill them...
I still remember John watching TV and Harry Butler came on, he reconned "the worlds stuffed when a leopard changes its spots and becomes a tv star"...
But then, John's water polo coach was Rolf Harris.. And when you think about it, these people from Bassendean/Ashfield area are all weird...
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