Clarrie Skinner, local aboriginal from Corindi with 2 jewfish

Fred Collman of Red Rock recalled the following :
 

"Clarrie Skinner was an old man when I was a kid.I know Dad often used to have a yarn with him, Clyde Rudder and the two Fords, Bayden & Wilfred, because they were permanent in those days .I can remember when I was only a whipper snapper talking to Clarrie there one day.  He always smoked a pipe.  He never drank & he always had a white shirt on.   It was really white. He reminded me of the fellow in the Pelaco advertisement.

I  remember Clarrie telling Dad about fish, he & some of his young mates from the camp would walk along the terrace and they used to spear mullet in the river here.  They were very thick when they were traveling in May.  They used to break a stick off on the way down, sharpen it to a point, and just go & stand on the bank, and throw the stick in.  He said they were so thick you could have walked across them.  They would knock off 6,8 and then head off home.He always used to say to be careful going back between here and that terrace area in the bush - there were a few tiger snakes & death adders hanging around there.  He said it was tiger snake and death adder country through here. They used to live off the land in those days, oysters everywhere, fish galore.'

Exerpt from A History of Red Rock by Olwyn Campey & Lindsay Cochrane