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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Map
Thursday Island 1938
It’s the Waiting I Can’t Stand
At the Chandlery
Hearing the Bu Horn
News from the Mainland
Too Many Years in the Sun
Things on the Captain’s Cabin Shelf
Shirley Temple
Inventory
Having a Squiz at the Japanese Cemetery
At the Diver’s Club
Getting Out of Broome
Catching Rose Up
Full Sail
Libation
Complaints to the Cook
Ah May’s Magic Tin
It Quickly Becomes Habit
This Is What It’s All About
I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Used to the Smell
The Bottom of the Food Chain
Remembering My Once-Upon-a-Time Father
The Movie Mirror
Too Close for Comfort
Rose-in-the-Mist
Takemoto’s Tender
My Books
Buying a Dog
Possibilities
Creaking Sails
Teasing
The Warm Water Makes Them Rise
Ten Days Out … North of Moa …
If It’s a Dream, Don’t Let It End
You Get Talking
My Sheepdog Conscience
Weighing Georgie Up
Full Moon
Social Niceties
Faces
That Last Day on the Boat with Ted
The Joys of Having a Mixed Race Crew
Georgie’s Got the Sulks
King Takemoto
Puppets
Ganymede
It’s Raining
Seventeen Days Out
Punishing the Tender
My Message to Morishita
It Takes Some Settling In …
Mates
Safety and Efficiency
How Hard Can It Be to Pick Up Shell?
Fingers
Inside my Dirigible
Entry
Coming Home
Old Injuries
Come-by-Chance Camouflage
First Dive
Getting Burnt
She’s Better than Real
Rambling Rose
The Naked Neap
Jellyfish
Suspicions
Fathers
Shaving
Sweet Nothings
Lightning
Competition
I Miss the Taste of Chocolate
Constellations
The First Day I Met Rose
Twenty-Five Days Out … West of Badu …
Regret
Worked Out
The Squeeze
Twinning
One of My Coins Is Missing
Georgie and I Have a Talk
Slipped Cog
My Glass Eye
Riding the Turtle
That Night, Around the Campfire
I Tell Georgie What I Know about the Birds and the Bees
I’m Not Without Culture
Why I Like Blake
Uncertain Grounds
The Bends
The Treatment
Takemoto Rubs It In
I Admire the Tenacity of Cockroaches
Have to Keep Moving
Holding Ginger Rogers
Advice
Nose Bleed
Stigmata
Starfish Spines
Lonely
My Left Hand Man
Devotion
William Bailey’s Amazing Adhesive Boots
Miss Georgie
Some Hobbies Are Not Worth Pursuing
The Captain’s Mermaid
It’s Nice to Have Things You Can Count On
Houdini
Seagulls
Blister
Today
Ah May and Takemoto Are At It Again
Labour Disputes
A Barney with the Missus
There’s Nothing Like a Man in Uniform
Six Weeks Out … Nor’East of Stephen Island …
Auguries
I’m Not Jealous
At the End of the Day
Of Mice and Men
I Just Wanted Her to Look at Me
Takemoto’s Paranoia
Ted’s Last Night
I Get Mean when I Drink Too Much
Half Dress
Love and Marriage
Mutiny
Now I Know They’re All Out to Get Me
Strategy
Soliloquy
Chafing
Manta Ray
Water, Water Everywhere
Becalmed
A Captain Has to Draw the Line
Wasps and Tarnish
The Dance of the Seven Veils
Deeper Water
Eight Weeks Out … Sou’East of Darnley Island …
Here We Go Again
The Accident
Burial at Sea
I Let Georgie Have His Say
Trouble in Paradise
It’s the Little Things
Takemoto Pays a Visit
Out of a Copper Sky
Tying a Decent Knot
I Found Her in Her White Dress
I Didn’t Feel a Thing
Drunk Again
The Morning After
Infection
The Dream
I’ve Become Invisible
To Takemoto
The Captain Sits at the Top of the Mast
Truth or Dare
Still the Captain of My Soul
Signs
It Wasn’t Just About Rose
He Would Have Wanted It This Way
Justified
My Albatross Necklace
Rose’s Appeal
It’s a Beautiful Day
I Never Underestimate the Wily Japanese
I Still Have an Eye for the Exquisite
Hide and Seek
Wings
Notes
Acknowledgements
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