Hi, this is Robyn’s Excellent Adventure, coming to you from latitude12°28′S, and longitude 130°50′E.
In my search for quintessential Darwin culture I’ve found one of the best things – Tales from the Tinny. This is my latest most favourite thing – it’s no longer the markets, no longer Lee Point, it’s The Tinny!
Yep, ABC radio, 105.7, Darwin Radio. Nice and early on a Saturday morning (from 5am, phew! Only for the angler hearted).
And my co-culture colleague, Esther, agrees with me, well agrees that Tales of the Tinny is great. Who wants Sydney-centric Radio National I say, when you can have the local lingo – podded, streamed or served up silently in elegant sans serif.
And the website is fantastic! Almost as much fun as the radio show itself. Check out the audio options.
Now, this is not as you might think, only a show for fishing fanatics, although if you start with the videos on the website, and see the fellows reeling in barra from the back of a boat, breaking their rods in battle, and tackling the tuna, you might think there was nothing in this early-riser’s show for your everyday-run-of-the-mill-sleepy-head-office-worker. Well, watch out blog-a-holics! There are recipes: fish with herbs, fish with noodles, fish with kaffir limes; cod with parsley, trevally with chilli and Brasilian moqueca fish stew with coriander and coconut milk. Yum.
And articles: articles about croc catching and crocs near primary schools, fishermen lost at the pub and thieves who can’t keep the noise down when they wheel away stolen grog in a squeeky wheelie bin and, generally, tales about the Territory that show you what a fab place this is and why aren’t you up here with me? with your fishing rod?
If I haven’t lost you already, either to the ABC site, or to the boat ramp at Lee Point (mind the crocs and don’t clean your fish by the side of the river), then read this spooky tip from the gurus on my new most favourite radio show. And this tip must be true, I heard it on the radio.
Here we go: when the sun rises within an hour of the moon rising, usually about 4 days after the new moon, then fishing will be excellent that day.
Hooroo from latitude12°28′S, and longitude 130°50′E!
And happy fishing listeners!
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See what lengths some territorians (at the ABC) will go to, to improve fishing performance.
