Prawn boats in the peel entrance back in the day.
Submitted by jighead on Sun, 2025-05-25 15:20
I've lived in Mandurah all my life and have been looking on the internet for pictures of the prawn boats that used to be moored in the channel entrance. They were there for years but I cannot find a single picture of them on the internet. Be cool if anybody has a photo of this or any stories they could share cheers.
Swompa
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hasnt been there since at
hasnt been there since at least 2011 according to Near Map
jighead
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That's surprising I thought they have been gone a bit longer than that.
Swompa
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Sorry, Nearmap only goes
Sorry, Nearmap only goes back to 2011 so i cannot see when it left, it certainly wasnt there in 2011.
davewillo
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I can access imagery back to
I can access imagery back to 1961. Where exactly did they use to moor?
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jighead
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Just inside of the original mouth entrance. They used to hang the nets out each side and catch the prawns as they ran to the ocean at night. I reckon there would of been a bit of rivalry for position. Not sure how the used to work that out amongst themselves.
davewillo
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Hopefully this works.See
Hopefully this works.
See attached from April 1985 and January 1995. One I've zoomed in to show that it clearly looks like nets out the side. In the zoomed out version of taht you can also see what looks to be another similar boat just inside the marina. Unfortunately the photo quality back then was shit!
Mandurah snip April 1985.JPG
Mandurah snip April 1985 #2.JPG
Mandurah snip January 1995.JPG
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jighead
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Cheers for that Dave but it says I need to log in.
davewillo
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Can someone please remind me
Can someone please remind me how to embed photos? I searched but there is just so much content and a lot of it is very old now.
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Mark_M
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Old advice
There is a conversation between ranmar and stevo at the bottom of this thread that might still be current?
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/improving-fishwrecked
and one here about embedding videos that also might be useful?
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/how-post-youtube-video
It is also possible to copy and paste someone else's embedded photo by simply using rightclick/copy, as you can see from Ranmars pic from the thread I linked above.
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I seem to recall my old man
I seem to recall my old man (he's 98) saying there were some in the Swan as well. Battle library or fisheries archives maybe.
piscetor
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local history
i remember every one under the old mandurah bridge scoping them as they came thru. A bit of argy bary sometimes. and the small boat on the up river side of the bridge , tilly lamp hanging off the bow and sides scoping them.
i also remember all the cray boats that used to anchor up in safety bay, Crom Wilson, the Hunters, Waters and Moreysits all sand there now. we would dive on the moorings for occy at 3 pennce a pound and got 2 bob for a cobbler.
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