![]() ![]() She tells him it is a blue groper and they sink back into the water to have a close look at it, his mother feeds it some abalone and then it darts into a dark hole. ![]() He screams to his mother to get in the boat but she laughs and tells him it is okay, she makes him look down and he realises it isn’t a shark but the biggest fish he has ever seen. After several dives, Abel is at the deepest point and nearly out of air when he feels a rush in the water behind him, he turns around to see a huge mouth, eyes like golf balls coming at him, the creature grabs his hand and takes the abalone, the pain is terrible and he screams then shoots to the surface. It is barely dawn when Abel and his mother get into their boat and head around to Robbers Head, drop the anchor and start to dive into the water searching for Abalone which they sell. Until the day he meets Blueback, the fish that changes his life. It’s hard work but Abel has the bush and sky and the bay to himself. Life is tough out at Longboat Bay, Every day the boy helps his mother earn their living from the sea and the land. He can’t remember a time when he couldn’t use a mask and snorkel to glide down into the clear deep. ![]()
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