Our Shipping Reporter , the only one north of Auckland, has returned from a successful cruise through North Queensland op shops , garage sales and piles of junk with a kitbag of nautical finds , making his fetid den look like a cross between Davey Jones's locker and a railway lost property office.
One of his finds , about which he is delighted, is the above framed painting of the Maldives on a coconut palm frond .
He made the highly suspect claim that he was reliably informed the following battered Casino guitar ,in a pile of rejects, was strummed by Scott Morrison holidaying in Hawaii , dressed like a beach bum in white rolled up daks, when he tripped over a drunken Elvis Presley look- alike asleep on the beach and fell with it into the sea , hence the missing strings and dried salt coverage .
