by Richard Neale
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| Fishing from the rocks at Porth Ferin c.1967. Who was the fisherman in the distance? |
I came across
an old black and white photo of me the other day, aged about six or seven, fishing
with my brother from the rocks at Porth Ferin on the Llŷn peninsula. Dressed, rather comically in black oil-skins,
complete with sou’wester hats, We're holding the wooden frames of hand-lines and
next to us sits a bucket to hold the crabs that we’ve caught. Over my shoulder you can clearly see a small
white open fishing boat, some distance offshore, with the silhouette of a
figure standing erect at the tiller.
As I pondered
on when the photo was taken (probably 1967),
