Hrothgar-

Thanks for the update on Brisbane. I'd really like to check it out but it would be quite a s-t-r-e-t-c-h. The Newcastle area, where we'll be for our final week, looks to be a long day's drive from Brisbane.

Yes, we'll likely fly into Cairns from Sydney and then van up to Port Douglas. Last time around we tried to connect with the Cairns Folk Club, only to find that the restaurant they gathered at, across the tracks, had changed its name, and that the Club had changed the regular date of their meeting that month, moving it up to the week before we arrived. Well, we were puzzled at the time, but maybe they had checked out the Charley Noble postings on Mudcat and decided that discretion was called for.

As for whaling songs, the only one currently in my repertoire is one about the sad demise of the fresh-water whaling industry in our Great Lakes, back in the 19th century.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble