Yeah.

And what they do is I did mine up at St Ives and it was in the summertime.

It was hot.

And I just noticed dogs in kennels and there'd be working police dogs that are on leave.

Handlers were on leave.

There'd be dogs in there being, you know, assessed.

And they would just go, go and get that dog out of the kennels.

Yeah.

But one of your last jobs was actually tracking where the dog had brought a bone back to the barbecue.

Oh, yes, the dog that brought the leg back to the barbecue down at Pheasants Nest on a Sunday afternoon.

Yeah, he had brought this leg home.

And I got called out this Sunday afternoon and doing cadaver work.

Dave and I worked together, Dave, with Great Blake.

He had another dog that come out of my bitch that ended up a good cadaver dog.

It would have been a good police dog, but they didn't know how to develop him.

Yep.

Wow.

So I was doing TRG work and then I thought, you know when you know you're not 100% and you're going, oh, I need to change out of GDs.

I thought, what am I going to do? I wanted to get in the dog unit, but you couldn't get in because as soon as I joined the cops, I rang them up.

I said, listen, I'm pretty hot stuff.

I want to get in the dog squad.

And the boss there at the time went, We want men here.

And you've got to line up to get in this job.

caught your eye.

he's

blowing his hands and rubbing them, you know, terrified.

So the first big job, so in 1979, it was the day after my birthday, the 9th of October 1979, we had a fellow Victorian tourist taken by a crocodile On a Sunday afternoon, Sunday.

He was out at Rainbow Cliffs doing some, him and his wife are visiting.

I'm visiting a local there, Max Cunningham.

And usually it's October, so the stinger season's out, just coming.

I'd been out at Rainbow Cliffs with my wife.

Yeah.

So just introduce yourself, mate, and go for your life.

Hello.

How are you, boys? Thank you very much for this.

I've been looking forward to this extremely much.

I was born and bred in Canberra, born in 1956.

My father was, I had a strange upbringing because he was born in 1914, my father, joined the army early, just looking at his pay books and whatnot.

He went in and he was a bit young, he had to go in at 18, so he was 17 and they put his age back to instead of April, they made it a few months earlier.

Teachers didn't