Coorong and Lower Lakes: Oral History of Sally Grundy and Dean Tugwell

Title

Coorong and Lower Lakes: Oral History of Sally Grundy and Dean Tugwell

Description

An interview in three parts with Dean Tugwell and Sally Grundy.

Dean, born 1929, is from Victor Harbour, and lived through the 1956 flood. Married since 1960, Dean and Sally live at Mundoo Island near the mouth of the Murray River. Dean recalls memories fishing with his father, and spear fishing with mates at Victor Harbour in the ocean. They talk extensively about the changes in fish species and vegetation they have seen at Mundoo Island and other parts of the Coorong and Lakes systems.

Dean and Sally talk about: changes in vegetation at Mundoo Island due to salt (brackish) water; fishing methods and equipment used in the ocean and lakes (including a pitchfork to catch Flounder); seeing dead Murray cod from upstream in the 1956 flood; natural movement of Congolli species from fresh to saltwater; activities of cockling, floundering, and yabbying; local Aboriginal culture; the effects of wind power on the water system; marine species (e.g. shark, seal, stingray, turtle) in the Coorong; and the severity of recent droughts compared with earlier ones.

Other fish species mentioned: tcherie/turie/toukrie, salmon trout, sunfish, pyebrie, garfish, whiting.

Creator

Heather Goodall
Jodi Frawley

Publisher

University of Technology, Sydney

Contributor

Murray-Darling Basin Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries

Rights

Copyright University of Technology, Sydney

Rights Holder

Re-use: Sally Grundy

Date

2011-02-09

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Unmediated registration for reuse. Interviewee's consent condition: Future researchers to check with Sally Grundy before use.

Interviewer

Jodi Frawley

Interviewee

Sally Grundy
Dean Tugwell

Location

Mundoo Island, SA

Duration

Part 1 00:21:05
Part 2 00:21:04
Part 3 00:17:53

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This Item Is Part Of Item: The Coorong and Lower Lakes
This Item Was Created By Item: Prof. Heather Goodall
Item: Dr Jodi Frawley
This Item Has Provenance Information Item: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Data Archive (ATSIDA)
Item: State Library of New South Wales
This Item References The Subject Item: Mulloway
Item: Murray Cray
Item: Coorong and Lower Lakes: Images from interview with Sally Grundy and Dean Tugwell
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