Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Fort Dennison (Pinchgut)?

DL

Observatory Hill.

A seafood feast in Hong Kong some how had a live one !

Checking if was edible a very very good idea



Not a huge difference may not be Trivial

Killer octopus: venomous sea creature ends up on restaurant diner’s plate in China and moments from being eaten when alarm sounded | South China Morning Post

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

A seafood feast in Hong Kong some how had a live one !

Checking if was edible a very very good idea

Kinda puts Japan's fugu restaurants into perspective.

When a teenager, in the late 60's, I would earn $4 a Blue Ring Octopus, from the Qld Uni. bloke doing the early research on them. A Dr. Robert Endean, from memory.

Not bad moolah for a school kid, then.

Originally Posted by Saitch

When a teenager, in the late 60's, I would earn $4 a Blue Ring Octopus, from the Qld Uni. bloke doing the early research on them. A Dr. Robert Endean, from memory.

Not bad moolah for a school kid, then.

All the safety gear for picking up Blue Ringed octopus provided of course- Your own uncommon common sense

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

All the safety gear for picking up Blue Ringed octopus provided of course- Your own uncommon common sense

Yep. A pair of shorts was the PPE and a sandy coloured, two gallon, plastic bucket was the equipment.

My dear, old Mum wasn't too impressed one morning, when she went to get breakfast started and found that one of my captives had escaped from the bucket and adhered itself to the 'fridge door.

p.s. this was on the Redcliffe Peninsula and I don't think that the Blue Ring had been reported that far South, at the time. I think it was when a soldier put one on his wrist, as a 'Watch' and paid the price, that people sat up and took notice. Don't quote me on this, as my memory isn't what it used to be.

Originally Posted by Saitch

Yep. A pair of shorts was the PPE and a sandy coloured, two gallon, plastic bucket was the equipment.

My dear, old Mum wasn't too impressed one morning, when she went to get breakfast started and found that one of my captives had escaped from the bucket and adhered itself to the 'fridge door.

p.s. this was on the Redcliffe Peninsula and I don't think that the Blue Ring had been reported that far South, at the time. I think it was when a soldier put one on his wrist, as a 'Watch' and paid the price, that people sat up and took notice. Don't quote me on this, as my memory isn't what it used to be.

I have a vague recollection of seeing them on the north end of Suttons Beach, about that era.

Originally Posted by Saitch

p.s. this was on the Redcliffe Peninsula and I don't think that the Blue Ring had been reported that far South, at the time. ..................

They're in Port Philip Bay.

First couple of them I saw had been put in a bucket by someone who knew, after being found in the rock pools at Queenscliff (Vic) and that was in the late 60's.

I remember someone prodding them with a stick to get the brown spots to turn blue.

David L