The ABBEY Family
MOSSY POINT POST OFFICE STORE:
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Helen and Tony Abbey and their children ran the Mossy Point Post Office Store and the Mossy Point Dive School from the mid 1970s to the early 1980s.
Tony started and ran the successful scuba school, operating out of the Annex to the shop. He dived on the wreckage of the ill fated trawler Dureenbee and co-authored an article on it, it appeared in The Canberra Times in December 1980. He used to say that the treasure that he found while diving was the history relating to any wreckage or artifacts that he located. He led the team that re-located the TSS John Penn in Broulee Bay.
It was Tony and Helen who started the 27.880 MHz marine radio cover for fishing boats operating from the Tomaga River. The radio service later graduated to VHF channels 16, 67 and 73. A wonderful safety net for boaties venturing outside.
For a while the dive school used a shark cat, about 18 foot (5.4 metres) long and heavy. Tony would tow it on its trailer at walking pace from the dive school to the boat ramp with an old roofless and doorless Landrover, in low range four wheel drive, no muffler or registration. One of its springs had been replaced with a piece of four by two (100mm x 50mm) timber.
Towards the end of Tony's running of the Scuba School, he was exiting the River with four divers, as he had done so often, when the boat lifted and fell with a crash. In Tony's words “Two foot waves, felt like the boat dropped six feet!” Three aboard had their backs severely jolted, one became quite distressed, the boat was beached near the middle of Broulee Beach, an ambulance was called and the occupants were taken to hospital. Not long after that Tony suffered a broken leg that took weeks to recover. He was having a bad run.
Sue and Peter Kafe took over the Post Office Store and the dive school from the Abbeys, Sue was the diving instructress. See also Mossy Point Post Office Store, Muffins and The Artery.
1 SURFSIDE AVE: LOT 284: MOSSY POINT
Helen and Tony Abbey and their children ran the Mossy Point Post Office Store and the Mossy Point Dive School from the mid 1970s to the early 1980s.
Tony started and ran the successful scuba school, operating out of the Annex to the shop. He dived on the wreckage of the ill fated trawler Dureenbee and co-authored an article on it, it appeared in The Canberra Times in December 1980. He used to say that the treasure that he found while diving was the history relating to any wreckage or artifacts that he located. He led the team that re-located the TSS John Penn in Broulee Bay.
It was Tony and Helen who started the 27.880 MHz marine radio cover for fishing boats operating from the Tomaga River. The radio service later graduated to VHF channels 16, 67 and 73. A wonderful safety net for boaties venturing outside.
For a while the dive school used a shark cat, about 18 foot (5.4 metres) long and heavy. Tony would tow it on its trailer at walking pace from the dive school to the boat ramp with an old roofless and doorless Landrover, in low range four wheel drive, no muffler or registration. One of its springs had been replaced with a piece of four by two (100mm x 50mm) timber.
Towards the end of Tony's running of the Scuba School, he was exiting the River with four divers, as he had done so often, when the boat lifted and fell with a crash. In Tony's words “Two foot waves, felt like the boat dropped six feet!” Three aboard had their backs severely jolted, one became quite distressed, the boat was beached near the middle of Broulee Beach, an ambulance was called and the occupants were taken to hospital. Not long after that Tony suffered a broken leg that took weeks to recover. He was having a bad run.
Sue and Peter Kafe took over the Post Office Store and the dive school from the Abbeys, Sue was the diving instructress. See also Mossy Point Post Office Store, Muffins and The Artery.
