G'day Larry,

Just to be really niggledy ... It is Bass Strait ... a strait is a narrow passage of water (compared to the open ocean ... Bass Strait is about 300 kilometres wide between Tasmania and Victoria!).

I must have a listen to Danny Spooner's version ... I ferried a box of some 3 or 4 of his CDs - from the Mt Victoria PO to a friend (the addressee) in the Blue Mts, behind Sydney, last weekend. Unfortunately said friend was tied up all weekend with a pre-competition residential camp for the Lithgow Brass Band ... so I won't hear the CDs until my next visit ... probably a month from now! (Well, I could ask John Warner if he has a copy of Danny's rendition ... )

Regards,

Bob Bolton