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More about the mermaid

 

Now that Roy Spence has given us the low down on the Mermaid of Broken Bay, I can tell the real story.

Well, what happened was, that the old man was fishing down on the Hawkesbury, when he caught this huge jewfish.

He brought it aboard and was wondering what to put it in, when he remembered he had mum's old neck to knee costume, he kept in case of emergency.

Well, he shoved the fish in this and just then the fish gave one desperate effort and leapt to freedom.

The old man would have followed it, only for the two Noahs cruising round the boat.

Later on, the jewfish, wearing mum's huge neck to knee costume, was stranded on a sandbank in the Brisbane Water.

That's when Bernie Crungle took his famous photo.

Keith Whitfield Woy Woy