by kayakone » Thu Jul 21, 2011 4:40 pm
Looks good for $ 34, but does it? I mean does it? You know what.
And will the end be the same? I hope not, because........
I knew a most superior camper
Whose methods were absurdly wrong;
He did not live on tea and damper
But took a little stove along.
And every place he came to settle
He spread with gadgets saving toil;
He even had a whistling kettle
To warn him it was on the boil.
Beneath the waratahs and wattles,
Boronia and coolibah,
He scattered paper, cans, and bottles,
And parked his nasty little car.
He camped, this sacrilegious stranger
(The moon was at the full that week),
Once in a spot that teemed with danger
Beside a bunyip-haunted creek.
He spread his junk but did not plunder,
Hoping to stay the week-end long;
He watched the bloodshot sun go under
Across the silent billabong.
He ate canned food without demurring,
He put the kettle on for tea.
He did not see the water stirring
Far out beside a sunken tree.
Then, for the day had made him swelter
And night was hot and tense to spring,
He donned a bathing suit in shelter
And left the firelight's friendly ring.
He felt the water kiss and tingle,
He heard the silence - none too soon!
A ripple broke against the shingle,
And dark with blood it met the moon.
Abandoned in the hush, the kettle
Screamed as it guessed its master's plight,
And loud it screamed, the lifeless metal,
Far into the malicious night.
The Bunyip and the Whistling Kettle (John Manifold)
{A Shark Shield does not work in fresh water}
Trevor
trev
Whaler 1.5 m; Tailor 65 cm; Bream 43 cm; Snapper 85 cm; Flathead 98 cm; Estuary cod 55cm; Spotted mackeral 85 cm; Papuan trevally 100 cm & 20 kg; Barracuda 100 cm; Spanish 77 cm; Sting ray got me 175 cm
Life without any risks is not worth living. (quote 'goanywhere')
