Redbill

Images from Chapter 12 - The Sooty Oystercatchers

Rusted lugger engines on the site of the Gregory and Co. foreshore camp, with author's son Joe Rowley, January 2001. (Copyright author.)
Pelican half-built, Shed 19, Victoria Harbour, Melbourne, 2002. (Copyright author.)
Part of the large Japanese cemetery, Broome, 2001. (Copyright author.)
Pam Nielsen with the memorial to Captain Gregory, near the old jetty site, Broome 1994. (Copyright Pam Gregory Nielsen.)
Tropical Cyclone Rosita approaching Broome, about 5:30 pm on 19 April 2000. (Copyright National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.)
Ida Lloyd (built 1937) sailing out of Fremantle, 2001. (Copyright Tony Larard.)
Tribal Warrior, the last surviving Gregory lugger, returns to Arnhem Land to visit old friends. Melville Bay, mid-2002. (Copyright Will Stubbs.)
"...she has danced off..." (Copyright Tim Oddie.)