Mr Mick Busuttin coming down Coconut Palm head-first, Brampton Island,. Barrier Miner Sat 28 Jan 1933 Tourists to Great Barrier Reef Dr Macgillivray Relates His Experiences [...] Mr Busuttin, a Maltese, has two married sons who are very hardy specimens, especially Mick, the elder. Mick was engaged at one time in capturing crocodiles for the various zoological gardens in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. It is nothing for him to defend himself single handed against a shark and kill it with a knife. He knows all passages and the islands intimately and ran with consumate ease barefooted over th
Mr Mick Busuttin coming down Coconut Palm head-first, Brampton Island,. Barrier Miner Sat 28 Jan 1933 Tourists to Great Barrier Reef Dr Macgillivray Relates His Experiences [...] Mr Busuttin, a Maltese, has two married sons who are very hardy specimens, especially Mick, the elder. Mick was engaged at one time in capturing crocodiles for the various zoological gardens in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. It is nothing for him to defend himself single handed against a shark and kill it with a knife. He knows all passages and the islands intimately and ran with consumate ease barefooted over the sharp rocks and stone and coral reef. He is stall, strong, and wiry and climbs a coconut tree with his hands and feet and can come down head first. Some little time ago an airman who was engaged in an aerial survey on the Barrier Reef tried to emulate him. He climbed the tree all right, but came down head first with all the skin off his chest, arms and nose. He had to be taken to Mackay Hospital for treatment. Mick thinks nothing of putting a whole orange into his mouth and chewing it up. He once won a competition by eating 36 pies for a meal. I saw him eat 18 turtle eggs as they were laid by a turtle, and I saw him eat raw turtle steak. He took us out to islands to the east from his place. We passed Bushy Island, which is surrounded by a very big coral reef. It is a typical coral island covered with vegetation and is the resting place at night of millions of sea birds. Tern Island was visited. It comprised two masses of rock from a large coral reef. On Tern Island we saw some most marvellous coral pools, far finer than any artificial aquarium that could be possibly be formed. We saw a turtle nesting on Bushy Island during two nights we were there, and many sharks came on the second day for remains that the turtle had left. One 12-foot tiger shark was caught together with a small black tipped one. [...] Mick showed he had a wonderful memory and woudl sing and recite - mos
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