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Tooru visits Australia. Part 2.
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| In Victoria we are very lucky to have a world class museum. It is a hands-on type museum with
activities for kids as well as the usual static displays. One of my favorite parts is the bushland forest exhibit
which goes from dry bush to moist rain forest and has a mountain stream flowing through it . The man in charge
of this magnificent site is the live exhibits officer and friend of Crayfish World, Alan Henderson. Tooru and I
took advantage of Alan's invitation to see his recent acquisitions, a number of giant gippsland crayfish. |
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Dave and Alan
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Gippsland crayfish See Enlargement Here
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This one is at least 1.5 kilograms
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Alan and Tooru
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| Still at the museum, Tooru and I also got to see the crustacean wet and dry exhibits. Chris
Roley kindly showed us a round. Tooru took about 5000 photos of the Tasmanian Crayfish Astacopsis gouldi. It was
great to be able to show Tooru specimens side by side so that we could see the visual/morp differences. He was
able to see examples of geocherax, cherax, engaeus and euastacus. Thank-you Chris. |
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Chris Roley and me
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To the left a giant Murray Crayfish, above is a saltwater southern
rock lobster, Janus edwardsii, I've caught heaps of these over the years
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Lunchtime. We sure ate well that week, at left Tooru samples australian
mussels Italian style with salad and pizza.
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| We headed home, I gave Tooru a present, an Australian stockman's hat. I got him to pose beside
my son's James' Australian Holden Panelvan. He was a real Ozzie now. Then it was off to the Goulburn River for some fishing. |
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| We arrived at the Goulburn River at Seymour. I have a caravan and boat there. Tooru was very
happy with the set-up. It was getting dark and a bit late to put the boat in so Tooru fished land based. |
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Your Host is Bernie
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The beautiful Goulburn River at Seymour. Enlargement
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Tooru's camper and my caravan on the banks of the Goulburn River
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A bit of shady tranquility
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All ready to go
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| My wife Sandra and I spend about three days a week here at the caravan. I am lucky that I have
a flexible work load and we spend as much time as possible here. It is also only 45 minutes from my house in Melbourne.
Apart from crayfish there is also murray cod, trout and redfin. You can get good results from bank fishing but I prefer to trawl
and that way I get to take in the scenery and I find it very relaxing. There is a long stretch of water which is
ideal for trawling just past the old bridge. |
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Inside the caravan, Murray lives on top of the TV unit
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Tooru fishing the Goulburn River. Lucky he had a new hat it
started to rain.
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......More food, one of my specialities,
entree chilli and garlic tiger prawns
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I surprised Tooru with some Greek cooking from the BBQ
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......We had lamb with tomatos,
cheese, onion, olives and tzatziki.
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Continued here
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Photos by David
Royal (Aust ) and Tooru Takenaka (Japan) Text by David Royal
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