By JH ( August 27, 2009 at 8:58 am) · Filed under 4. Big Game Spearing
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By JH ( August 27, 2009 at 8:54 am) · Filed under 4. Big Game Spearing, don linklater, dunbar, john gillies, sydney shipwreck 1857, wally gibbins

Dive organized for newsreel camera. Main picture shows Wally Gibbins and Lois Linklater, (top picture) Don Linklater (on left) - founder of Undersee Products.

Coinage from The Dunbar and other shipwrecks in Sydney Harbour. Collection of The Late John Gillies
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By JH ( August 27, 2009 at 8:46 am) · Filed under 4. Big Game Spearing
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By JH ( August 27, 2009 at 8:38 am) · Filed under 4. Big Game Spearing


The author rides a North Stradbroke Island brumby in 1966
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By JH ( August 27, 2009 at 8:35 am) · Filed under 4. Big Game Spearing, muttonbirds, shearwater
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By JH ( August 27, 2009 at 8:28 am) · Filed under 4. Big Game Spearing
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By JH ( August 27, 2009 at 8:23 am) · Filed under 4. Big Game Spearing
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By JH ( August 25, 2009 at 12:26 pm) · Filed under 4. Big Game Spearing, bob grounds, jewfish, mulloway, pelagic fish, pelagic species, vic ley, wally gibbins, wally gibbons (sic), yellowtail kingfish eaten by shark



A large whaler shark gave young Wally Gibbins a thrill when it ate most of a Kingfish he was holding. The shark appears to have been in excess of 3.5 meters if you study the jaw impression.

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