Salt Story by Drummond Sarah

Author:Drummond, Sarah
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction/Sea Stories
ISBN: 9781922089076
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Published: 2009-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

SHACKLANDS

Bullet stopped in at the Bremer Bay servo and bought some bread rolls. We crossed the bar at the river mouth and he drove a fisherman’s dodgem through the peppermints. His four-wheel drive sounded like a Sherman tank as it chugged through the gears. On the back tray, the dogs grabbed at branches flying by.

We passed a few other four-wheel drives towing camper trailers. Then the ute slewed through the sandhills until Bullet pulled up on the hard, windswept sand of the next inlet’s bar. A flock of plovers rose away from the water in unison as the dogs galumphed about. They settled just as fast, as soon as the dogs swaggered away.

‘This is the Gordon,’ Bullet said. ‘We go fishing here sometimes. Mullet, mostly.’ A rough tin shack sat beside the track, ‘Whale Villa’ spray-painted across the corrugated walls. Inside, the floor was black sand and there was a wire bed with no mattress perched in one corner. Someone had scratched into the windowpane, ‘Save a whale, harpoon a fat chick.’

‘I’ll show you some more shacks, yeah?’

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