A bookmark found by our drifting Shipping Reporter in North Queensland was a sad reminder of an accident nearly 70 years ago in which the father of a schoolmate drowned when a boat overturned on a holiday at Forster, New South Wales.
A friendly dolphin at Forster was the centre of the first graphic in the unused bookmark.
The father , a mechanic , with one eye , a waterskier, drove a speedboat, active on Sydney's Hawkesbury River at Windsor and Sackville .
In his relentless search for nautical books, memorabilia and junk , the Shipping Reporter bought the above carved wooden souvenir Fiji canoe at a Magnetic Island garage sale .
Not far from the garage sale , our sharp-eyed waterfront roundsman spied a yacht , ordered the Uber driver to stop , but it was not for sale ,so he took a photograph .
