We had our Probus meeting today at a garden called Wychwood at Mole Creek, not far from Deloraine. I'd never heard of it even though Leo Schofield called it 'magical' and 'a work of art'. The couple who developed the garden have recently sold it to two young men from Melbourne who have the energy to maintain it as it should be.
It certainly was beautiful with glorious trees and an amazing variety of other plants. The Mole Creek runs through it, home to brown trout and platypuses. ... and eels. Further downstream, a local entrepreneur catches the eels, processes them and ships them all over the world. He is experimenting with farming them, though that is harder than he had anticipated.
It seems the eels spawn in the Coral Sea near New Caledonia, and the tiny 'glass eels' are carried by the Australasian Current down the east coast of Australia where their instinct draws them into fresh water streams in Tasmania. Here they live for around ten years before heading back to sea to return to the Coral Sea for spawning. That is, unless Mr John Ranicar catches them and fillets them for some Korean gentleman's breakfast.
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