Cray Tales, published in 1998, is a book offering a colourful account of the Western Australian Cray Fishing Industry.
Cray Tales gives a largely unrecorded West Australian sub-culture the opportunity to be seen and heard. The fishermen and their families’ tales are bawdy, tragic, tender and whether the reader likes history, surfing, drama or a good belly laugh there is something for everyone. It’s about exclusive lobster fishers whose livelihoods are bound into the ecology of the sea and who take the dangerous, isolated and bizarre for granted. They’re driven by a hunting instinct, technology shunts, money sculpts but nature prevails and the resulting human condition is unique, pioneering, skilled and naive. Read More