Last year, 83,000 wallabies were culled on Australia's King Island, and 30,000 were shot by a single man, writes Paul Carter.
Depending on who you talk to, there's anywhere between 500,000 and one million wallabies on the 1,100sq km (424 sq mile) King Island, which is 64km long, 26km wide and has a human population of just 1,600.
The lush, rolling pastures that feed the island's acclaimed beef and dairy cattle also support this extraordinary population of Bennett's wallaby, which feast by night while resting and breeding by day in their coastal scrub fortresses.
"It's just a perfect breeding ground for them," says the island's sharpshooter Shane Keeler who last year claimed 30,000 kills at A$3 ($2.3; £1.60) a pop.
He co-ordinates the Tasmanian government's Wallaby Management Program on the island."http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-35878526

One would hope that the skins were tanned for leather & the meat was used as food, for humans as well as Animal fodder. I eaten Wallaby all my life. Apparently it's supposed to be Gourmet now a days. It's very rich in Iron & almost Fat free.

I hate waste. My wife & I are rebirthers & repurposes. Nothing goes to waste around here. I'm rebuilding my Caravan, from the ground up. Every comes from building sites. Plywood, Timber, Electric Wiring, Paint. Surprising what you can get if you ask nicely.

I have, occasionally, picked up a fresh wallaby kill on the side of the road for my dog. Though they tell me it's illegal?

You had better worm that dog Jayb, most wallabies & roos are full of tapeworm, as well as a few others.

Every year or two we have one of the fool things seriously injured by crashing into a fence post or similar, that we have to put down. Got the wildlife people in the first time, & an elderly lady was in serious danger of injury while using needles to put it down. I do it myself now, & burry the thing, I don't want our animal eating them.

A pain in the butt actually, it takes a big hole to fit those legs.

Is Mise, what is your point? why do you mention The Greens? That man has created an ecological imbalance on King Island through intensive agriculture, resulting in the destruction of thousands of native fauna. I know how you personally get off on killing such defenseless animals.
As I drove around Tasmania recently it was horrifying to see the number of fresh road kills of native animals every few hundred meters. The only winners seem to be the crows. It is illegal to remove road kills as some people also became road kills themselves. The night time speed restriction of 65 kmph seems to have done little to stem the carnage. Its similar in New Zealand.
Is Mise how are sales of that book of yours going? what is it called 'Road Kill Recipes For The Unsuccessful Hunter'.

This is off topic but is it just me or do others find the claim that 30,000 wallabies were shot by one man in a year a bit incredulous?

Let's say that he works 10hours/day, 6 days/week with only 2 weeks holiday that gives 3000hrs of shooting for the year. Which means that he has to shoot one wallaby every 6 minutes! This six minutes includes the time in takes to track/find the wallabies and also whatever it is that he does with them once they're dead (presumably he has to at least take some part of it to verify the kill if he doesn't collect the whole carcass for meat). This time also includes all the other preparatory and concluding work- such as maintaining the rifles and paper work.
In addition, from what I understand, most shooting (well at least for some roos) happens during dusk/early night because this is the best time to find them- so he probably doesn't even have 10hrs/day available.

thinkabit: the claim that 30,000 wallabies were shot by one man in a year a bit incredulous?

Yes, I thought it was a bit high. Maybe an extra "0" was put in by a Greenie by mistake. You Know. ;-) A bit like bribing the Abattoirs Security Guard & hiring some local hoons who have never had anything to do with cattle to kill them. Then claim the animals are being mistreated.

Let see 83000 wallabies killed in one year. Area 1100 sq K. That’s 7.6 Wallabies /K. Now if the decimated the Wallabies then there would have been 83000 Wallabies on the Island, so, 75.5 Wallabies /K. Not allowing for the Cattle, the Township, People or other Wild Life it’s bloody crowded. I can see why they had a cull.

Something just doesn’t add up. Greenies being Greenies. I suspect.

Well put thinkabit, must be a very smelly island for the 1600 (Is Mise is that number after some culling?) inhabitants, all those dead rotting Wallaby's around the place, with Deadeye Dick adding another one to the pile every 6 minutes. We must assume he never misses. His Mates only bagged 53,000 between them, they must be bad shots.

Here in NSW we had a trial of Feral Animal Control in National Parks, it was a fiasco. The governments own figures showed it cost &7152 for each pest animal shot by the great white hunters. It might have been better if the feral animals were elephants then they might have hit something.

One of the states best known hunters Tony Azzi was being investigated by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, and the NSW Police for shooting protected defenceless wombats.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/multimillionaire-car-dealer-tony-azzi-investigated-over-wombat-deaths-20151218-glqoga.html

Most of these Rambo hunters like to get well tanked up before they go out and shoot everything in sight. We have the duck hunting season in Victoria, where in the past drunken hunters have been guilty of shooting and maiming all kinds poor animals, including a few ducks.

Thinkabit,

Depending on how thick the macropods are on the ground then a professional culler with a semi-auto rifle should be able to kill 10 in 15 seconds, probably faster. If he has plenty of magazines then the average would go up.

At $3 a head he could afford to pay two men to assist in tagging/removal etc.

30,000 is well within the bounds of possibility.

Paul,

The relevance to the Greens is that they have jumped on the "Get on TV bandwagon" over the proposed culling of a relative few macropods around Canberra but have let this King Island culling go unnoticed, one wonders why?

Never heard of the "famous hunter" that you mention.

Could we have some references to your other allegations, or are they just wild figments of Green bile/

Yes, if I was you Is Mise, I would be so embarrassed by the allegations against well known hunter Tony Azzi that I to would deny all knowledge of Mr Azzi.

The flouting of the law, the cruelty of the killers etc, when it comes to the duck hunting season in Victoria has been well documented but one more time for the dummy. You can read all about it on the website.

http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/vic-duck-shooting-investigation-2016.php?ua_s=ga

is Mise is there any truth to the rumor that the Australian Rugby Team is forbidden from visiting King Island so they don't become part of that Wallaby cull.

Back peddling about Dead Eye Dick I see, the man with the 30,000 kills "...professional culler, with a semi-auto rifle, should be able to kill 10 in 15 seconds, probably faster. If he has plenty of magazines then the average would go up. At $3 a head he could afford to pay two men to assist in tagging/removal etc..."

What a load of conjecture!

Didn't answer my question about the book!

Of course if you were Is Mise Paul1405, you wouldn't be such an insufferable dill, & would have no reason to be embarrassed, unlike you have now.

Is Mise: Wow, well you've changed the goal posts considerably there. But given this completely new scenario I would suggest that he finds a new job such as steady employment labouring on a building site at $25/hr. Let's do the math:

Ok, so your rapid fire marksman now employs two people. Let's say that they are such uber efficient workers that they complete their work in only 4hrs* and only work 5 days/week for 48wks/year.

In Australia, the minimum it costs an employer to employ a casual adult doing physical laboring work is about $21/hr after you include the additional costs such as superannuation, workers-comp, etc.

So now he's paying: 2employees*$21/hr*4hr/day*5day/week*48wk/year = $40,320 wages/year

On top of this, he has the other costs involved in running the business. For example: ammunition (which considering he's firing 30,000+ bullets a year is in the thousands of dollars); registration, insurance, running and maintenance cost of his vehicle; the cost of new high performance rifles which at 30,000 uses a year are going to need replacing regularly and these are not cheap; insurance for personal and property damage; red tape costs such as shooting permits; cost of paperwork/accounting, etc.
Let's say that he is an exceptionally thrifty businessman and keeps these costs to just $10,000/year (if he could manage to do it for so little then we should have him as our federal treasurer!)

So now his $90,000 that he received from the bounties collected gives a net of only about $40,000. This is not a great income considering the effort and risk involved. And it is an exceptionally risky job- he could easily accidentally shoot someone (such as an employee) or something he's not meant to-- in fact considering the number of shots/year and the fact that he's often shoots in bursts of 10 or more and shoots at rate of about a shot per second it is almost certainly going to happen if he does it for any number of years.

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I would strongly recommend that he finds a better job! Even labouring for a construction company will earn him more money per year- and it has better overall better prospects, since for instance he could eventually become a tradesman earning way more than he ever would shooting roos/wallabies.

*(The reason I said 4hrs is because this is the minimum number of hours that an employer must provide to employees on any given day under many awards. In addition, I've allow them to work only during standard pay times days cause he doesn't want to pay any penalty rates. This means this is the very mimimum that he can pay in wages. In reality it would cost a lot more than this!)

Hassy, do you ever consider you are in danger from The Great White Hunter yourself? After all you are one heck of a Big Bore!

Can you please come up with something better than continually referring to me as a dill, its so hackneyed. If I was referring to your good self, given your outstanding intellect, I would use the more descriptive term nincompoop!

thinkabit, you waste your time posting logical argument to Is Mise.
He will come back with another one of his what if's.

What if... the Great White Hunter employed a 100 black fellas to act as drum beaters, and then later they could form an ant like line and carry the dead wallabies out of the bush on their heads. Just watch any old 'Tarzan' movie

If Is Mise doesn't apply a what if, then he simply avoids the question all together.

thinkabit,

Go into the real world for a while!

Paul,

You haven't answered my question yet; when you do I'll answer your's
The great hunter that you mention, well, it truth I have never heard of him.

Is Mise, I think you and I may have discussed this topic once or twice before. With you coming off second best each time.

As for Tony Azzi the well known hunter in NSW, I gave you a link to the abysmal allegations that Mr Azzi slaughtered defenseless and protected wombats on his property.
For all I know Mr Azzi might have given you a fellow hunter a good deal on a used car. When he's not killing wombats he's flogging cars.

I wouldn't rely on the dropkick Hasbeen to back me up on this topic, or any topic for that matter, his contributions are less than worthless.

Come come Is Mise, thinkabit has put up a very solid argument and all you can offer in reply is the dismissive phrase "Go into the real world for a while!

Dream on Paul and some day you might just answer a question.

Is Mise, I have answers all your question as usual.

The Final Report by Professor Tony Norton and Nick Johannshon June 2010 and what they had to say about shooting as a long term control measure on King Island.

THE GREENS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT DETAILED EXPERT OPINION AND FACTS ON THIS MATTER. Not over the top nonsense from the gun happy brigade!

From the report;

"However, the usefulness of shooting as a viable, long-term wildlife control measure on King
Island appears uncertain. In the absence of careful planning, the use of shooting of native
wildlife as a method of control can be problematic. Ad-hoc or inefficient use of shooting in
an area can make the effective use of this control option more difficult as animals become
particularly sensitive to disturbance. In terms of wildlife management at a landscape level,
localised shooting may have only limited or no lasting benefit since the local area may be
rapidly occupied by animals moving in from neighbouring, uncontrolled areas where the
wildlife population remains high.
There are concerns within the local community about the apparently large number of animals that are shot and may be left in farm paddocks."

Read complete report, if you wish:

http://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/Documents/Implications-of-Native-Wildlife-Browsing-on-King-Island-Final-Report-4-August-2010.pdf

Paul1405: From the report;

Obviously written by a Greenie. Not worth the paper it's written on.

The Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture is a joint venture between the University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Government.

Obviously a "greenie" organisation Jayb

How does the saying go Jayb "There is none so blind as the DUMB IGNORANT!

You make a worthy back up for is Mise, and his every faithful sidekick Hasbeen.

Paul1405: How does the saying go Jayb "There is none so blind as the DUMB IGNORANT!

You are so right Paul. Those Greenies get so zonked out on Wacky Weed & their Sacred Chrystal Meth they wouldn't know what day it was.

Paul,

The report is full of "what ifs".
Now why haven't we heard the Greens complaining about the culling on King Island?

Bye the way, how dose the wallaby population on King Island increase if shooting them is ineffective, swimmers?
It was the lack of shooting to keep their numbers down that led to the present overpopulation.

Wrong again Is Mise

"It was the lack of shooting to keep their numbers down that led to the present overpopulation."

It is the agricultural practices which has led to the present overpopulation of Wallabies on King Island.

Shooting has been shown time and time again to be ineffective in controlling animal populations whilst every conditions are right for their abundant breeding.

From the report;

"A positive relationship was demonstrated between the relative abundance of Bennett’s Wallaby and pasture loss to wildlife browsing. Measured pasture loss was around 50% of pasture production, on average, at unfenced sites. Shooting wallabies typically had no medium term effect on reducing animal numbers at unfenced sites, and hence typically may have no practical benefit at these sites in terms of reducing pasture loss to wildlife."

It was clearly demonstrated that an ad hoc indiscriminate shooting policy on King Island had no long term effect on the wallaby population.

Is Mise, you and likes of the Shooter and hooters Party, Hasbeen and Jayb think that the answer to everything lies at the point of a gun! You have been wrong in the past, and you will always be wrong on that score in the future.

Where is your evidence to support your outrageously ridiculous claims?

Paul405: It is the agricultural practices which has led to the present overpopulation of Wallabies on King Island.

You are right Paul. Dingo's are their natural predator. So, I suggest that Dingo be introduced to the Island to rip the throats out of the young wallabies. See, a green solution.

Jayb, just as lions rip the throats out of wildebeest, and if as you suggest dingo's are the natural predator of wallabies, if that is the expert answer to the problem, which I doubt it is, then who am I or the Greens to argue with that. If throat ripping of wallabies by dingo's offends your sensibilities then there is not much I or the Greens can do about it.

Dingos are not native to Australia at all. They are an environmental catastrophe introduced to Australia about 4,000 years ago and the leftist fantasised 'custodians of the land', Aborigines, were responsible for aiding the distribution and wholesale destruction of the wild dog from Asia/Polynesia.

Of course the 'Watermelon' Greens are wacko enough to assert that more recently introduced pests such as foxes are now part of the landscape and should not be culled.

The problem of the Greens and so ably demonstrated by Paul1405, is that they are moral Bullsh...ers who pursue headlines to win Senate seats from the foolish and disaffected who are gullible and stupid enough to waste their vote on protests.

The biggest dingo of them all has dropped in for an anti Greens rant. The clever Dick tries to tell everyone how "knowledgeable" he is with a lesson we all learnt in primary school social studies "dingo's were introduced to Australia by Aboriginals about 4,000 years". Beach thanks for the news flash, go to the top of the class.
"Moral bullish" synonyms for "bullish" hopeful, buoyant, positive, cheerful, bright. Thanks Beach, we will take that as a unintended compliment. I would never describe you as "bullish", but being stuck in that damp and decrepit old bunker with Jim, trying to relive past glories, I would describe you and your party as morally morose, look that one up!

Is Mise, if you are serious about wanting to know where are the Greens on the issue of wallaby culling on King Island, I challenge you to contact the Tasmanian Greens spokesperson on this Rosalie Woodruff MP, and put up her response on this thread. Unlike the major political parties, the Greens welcome inquires on issues and policy from the general public. Whenever I have contacted a Greens MP on an issue or policy I have always received a detailed response. Unfortunately I cannot say the same for inquires I have made to both Liberal and Labor MP's. To give you an example a recent detailed inquiry to the responsible minister concerning the issue of privatising of public transport, buses and trains in NSW, was met with a curt one line response from some ministerial underling stating; "The government has no policy to privatise public transport, at this time." Meaningless.

To help you out;

http://tasmps.greens.org.au/contact-your-mp

Paul1405,

You are in denial about Indigenous mythmaking and dreaming where it concerns introduction and distribution of that vicious predator, the Asian/Polynesian wild dog (in Oz parlance the Dingo) that would have immediately threatened the viability of existing wildlife 4-5,000 years ago and most likely extinguished some species.

Fortunately the dogs - already domesticated and having lost any species uniqueness well before they were spread by Aborigines who kept them as pets - never made it to Tasmania, where the Devil for instance was able to survive without the onslaught.

So much for that noble native 'Original Australian' and 'Custodian' of the land eh, what?

Here, bone up a bit,

http://www.fraserislandfootprints.com/?page_id=277

Yes too, dingos are known to attack indigenous infants and recently, as well as 'white' (reference to the unfortunate Chamberlains).

The elitists who direct the Greens might be quietly in favour of a wallaby cull for some fattened wallaby steaks to go with those King Island cheeses and some expensive tipple.

Paul1405, you say you have the ear of knobs like Senator Lee Rhiannon and her lesser lappies like that oddity Shoebridge. What have the Greens said so far about King Island wallaby steaks? Do they go with watermelon?

Beach, the only knob around here is you. Aboriginals may be guilty of introducing dingo's to Australia. You are guilty of introducing viruses to the forum, remember that one? Something you never apologised for doing. So please excuse me if I don't open any of your untrustworthy links!

Paul1405,

Anyone who disagrees with you gets plenty of that nonsense. It is par for the course.

BTT
Now, where is that Greens policy on wallaby culls in King Island? What about Tasmania?

Paul,

Your posts re. the Greens make good reasons for people not to vote Green.

Beach, from another forum member in reference to you posting a virus infected link 1st February 2016 on the thread;

'Australian of the Year: a vehicle for feminist agenda'

An action you never explained or apologised for. Since you started that particular inflammatory thread, knowing it would drag in plenty of the posters you so vehemently disagree with, and in liou of any explanation on your part as to why you posted a link containing a virus, one should be very cautious when opening any link posted by Beach. I simply just don't open them, better to be safe than sorry. A decent forum member would have apologised for the error, or at least given some explanation, you failed on both counts. It was only a couple of months ago, its not too late.

Thanks paul1405. This bloke is a real shocker.

He post a link to a site chock full of bloody viruses then when you warn the rest of us he says;

“What garbage. You have sunk to a new low.”

I have always done due diligence when I post links here by putting them through a site checker. The one I use is sitecheck.sucuri.net

otb's filthy link is flagged as both compromised and blacklisted. The normal reason for blacklisting is that it has either malware or virus infection.

http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/tinyurl.com/dishonesty-in-dv-industry

I'm hoping the reason he has posted it is pure idiocy rather than malicious, although maliciousness towards those he calls feminists has been on regular display.
Posted by SteeleRedux, Monday, 1 February 2016 9:55:29 PM

FYI; King Island is located in Bass Straight and therefore comes under the auspices of the Tasmanian government. Possibly you thought it was located somewhere off the coast of the Northern Territory. I'm sure as a Forum Regular, you would enjoy their cheese. I know my pet rat does.

Is Mise: Your posts re. the Greens make good reasons for people not to vote Green.

Spot on Issy. This clown smokes too much weed.

Paul, maybe you can talk to the Greenies & get them to issue the pill to the Wallabies on King Island. Now there's a good greenie idea, or maybe they could just talk to them & ask them to have more gay sex so they won't have as many babies.

Paul1405,

That is just of the childish forum games you and some other posters play.

Personal attacks when you have been caught without any comeback.

Again, par for the course for you. How can you hope to be treated seriously when you say things like,

"I'm sure as a Forum Regular, you would enjoy their cheese. I know my pet rat does"
[Paul1405, Thursday, 14 April 2016 5:41:45 AM]

Yet you say and all who are aware of the NSW 'Watermelon' Greens would believe it, that the Greens had you as a Greens candidate in a previous NSW local government election. Unsuccessful of course and probably one of several the Greens nuisances put up for a seat hoping to disrupt and get some donkey vote.

BTT,

You have outstanding questions about King Island wallabies, that you are ducking.

Is Mise, despite the fact you started this thread in an attempt to discredit the Greens, as usual you have failed miserably. Firstly you relied on a British article which in the main was critical of shooting as an effective culling method for wallabies on King Island. When thinkabit questioned the reliability of your stats regarding some unnamed crack shot, you simply moved the goal posts by introducing totally erroneous conjecture and "what if's". Even your sidekick, the wallaby munching Jayb, questioned your stats thinking there might have been an extra "0" added, but then claimed it must have been added by one of those dreaded greenie's. Hasbeen, as per usual could add nothing to the debate other than warning the wallaby munching Jayb about the worms in wallabies, and calling me a dill as he likes to do. Then when complexly stumped by thinkabit's logic all you could come back with was to tell him to get into the real world.
I gave you 3 examples of irresponsible or stupid outcomes of hunting, hunting trial in NSW national parks, Mr Tony Azzi and duck hunting in Victoria. Two you ignored completely, and the other you denied all knowledge of Mr Tony Azzi, despite the fact his name was splashed all over the media.
Then I gave you the definitive and detailed report on ' Implications of Browsing by Native Wildlife on Improved Pastures
and Native Vegetation Communities on King Island, Tasmania' at which point I also answered your topic question with

"THE GREENS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT DETAILED EXPERT OPINION AND FACTS ON THIS MATTER"

Did you miss that one, it was in capitals.

Leaving it to the wallaby munching Jayb to reply with his usual one liner "Obviously written by a Greenie. Not worth the paper it's written on." Doesn't like them Greens does he, its all a conspiracy.

cont

cont

I even went as far as providing a link to the Tasmanian Greens, so you could get the answers you seek first hand. Beach with his primary school social studies turned up, but was of no assistance to your cause, seeming not to know where King Island is.

I would like to say "You and your sidekicks put up a good fight on this topic". But I can't, your line of argument is pathetic

So we can take it that the Pommie article is correct then and that the Greens are doing something about the problem, that's good news. Pity that they support the use of 1080 though.

Is Mise, the next time you start a thread with an article link, it would be most helpful to your argument if you actually read the article. In that BBC article which unlike you I have actually read there is no reference to The Greens what so ever.
Have you contacted the Tasmanian Greens to get the first hand information on Greens policy? I think not!

As per the norm you and your un-trusty sidekicks have sprooked your usual guff, and as per usual have failed!

END OF STORY

The latest report on the 'Is Mise King Island Wallaby Cull Expedition';

With Is Mise in command 'Wallaby One', aka Is Mise's battered and bruised 1969 Holden 'Kingswood' has been sighted leaving Alice Springs heading north towards Darwin. With the trusty Hasbeen at the wheel and Beachy Boy acting navigator. unfortunately 2IC Jayb is rather pale, and not at his best, slumped in the back seat, Hassy reckoned its those 15 Wally Burgers Jayb consumed at the Tennant Creek stop. Commander Is Mise fully expects to hit King Island sometime Tuesday, all being well! Speaking from the side of the road, the trusty lads are marooned, due to 'Wallaby One' suffering a flat and having no spare tire. Seems Hassy ditched the extra wheel to fit in much need supplies, 6 cartons of XXXX for the thirsty lads. As Command Is Mise said "You can't hunt wallaby without a good wack of XXXX, makes you shoot straighter (sometimes).
The boys are well armed and rearing to go, Issy has his trusty blunderbuss, Hassy's armed with grandpa's elephant gun, Beachy has a gatling gun, and Jayb brought a case of dynamite for any wallies that jump the fence. The boys are towing a war surplus howitzer for any varmints and greenies that prove hard to hit!

Paul1405: 2IC Jayb is rather pale, and not at his best, slumped in the back seat, Hassy reckoned its those 15 Wally Burgers Jayb consumed at the Tennant Creek stop and Jayb brought a case of dynamite for any wallies that jump the fence.

Pies, mate Pies. We used to get them on the Sunlander at St Laurence & I prefer C4, Blows down, not up like Dynamite, much better effect.

Hi Jayb, love and peace to you,

Being a dreaded greenie my beer is 'Carton Black' more environmentally friendly than that pale ale those other blokes drink. My old man who wqs also a 'black' drinker, with a few in, would say to me in the pub, "those blokes drink'n the amber stuff...don't like beer!" Each to his own I say.

In Kiwi Land, South Island, Speights 5 Malt, 5 times malted but still beer, the best black beer in the world, I've tried Irish Black (beer not stout) and its very good as well. In the islands, on a hot day any beers good. LOL.

p/s In winter I like a draught Guniness, a bit heavy for some, but nice and creamy.

Paul1405,

All fine drinks and nothing like the cat's wee sold as boutique beers.

But you must feel out of place with the urban Hipsters of the Greens and their wallet list of what labels to drink, from some pretentious critic.

LOL, sorry for that one, but it is true.

Coopers Stout is a very nice drop.

Hi Beach, love and peace to you as well.

I've never tried Coopers stout, my brother-in-law was a Coopers drinker (beer) had a few at his place over the years, not my style but drinkable. My son has a habit of turning up now and then in winter with a couple of bottles of 'Sheaf' Stout, the local stuff, it also drinkable.
I'm a club and pub drinker myself, $4.60 schooners, $4 happy hour.
Nah, I can drink with anyone, black fellas in Redfern, managing directors in the city. I know you think i'm a story teller, but I've even had drinks in Mac Street with politicians, so you don't blast the Greens, there were Labor and Liberal people there as well. My favorite Green in NSW, its not Aunty Lee, she only drinks orange juice.
'Boutique' beer, mostly over priced lolly water. had one once it smelt and tasted like rose petals, not my drop.
In Fiji, I drink the Fiji Gold, which is not a bad larger beer, so was the local island beer in Vanuatu, forget its name. tried the Yanks Budweiser, I thought it was like their pancakes, pretty ordinary.

To keep it on topic, what goes well with a Wallaby Stew, Is Mise can answer that one, he's written the book.

The Continuing drama of 'Wallaby One'; The lads finally hit King Island after hitching a ride on a passing greenie sail boat 'The Wacky Tobacky' with Captain 'Peace Loving' Pauly at the helm. Unfortunately the lads had succumbed to the effect of the "evil weed" whilst on board, passive smoking of course, Captain Pauly reckoned it has the same effect as XXXX, makes him sail straighter (sometimes) The Lads were in no fit state to hunt wallaby once hitting landfall!

Mistaking the lads for dreaded greeies, crack shot Dead Eye Dick, took careful aim...to be continued.

Will Dead Eye Dick increase his tally to 30,000 and 4? Or will our intrepid hero's survive? Stat tuned.