"I built a house at the Pallinup where the road goes down into it. Miller's Point, yes, that's it. It was very good for fish. The best fish I had for years there, bream and mullet, I preferred mullet. Netted the mullet, netted the bream too.

I used to take the nets off the blokes when they didn't have a licence. I was issuing the licence, and if they didn't come and get a licence well I would take the nets off them. They had to have a licence and had to have certain size nets, three-inch net, if the net was smaller than that I could take it, and I did take it. When I got nets I would ring the Shire up and they would send a policeman down to get it.

I had a dog there and she used to be with me in the water of course. But she was very handy. She used to find the nets in the water, she would smell them and she'd let me know and I'd search for them. She was on the boat all the time. I had a shag there that was tamed; he was caught in a net and couldn't get out. I took him out and put him in the boat and he stopped in the boat and before I got to Miller's Point I threw him out, see, and every time I would go out he would be coming across to get in the boat. The dog and him was mates.

Used to get a lot of people there from all around the district. Some would come from Gnowangerup, some from Borden, but when the weather was fine you got a lot of people there.

Two and a half days I used to trap dingoes. I used to have people come down and tell me dogs were killing sheep and I'd go out. Well I used to be trapping there before I went to live there. I used to just be working for the Vermin Board. I used to get about 70 dingoes a year.

You had to know how to set them or you wouldn't get them. Well, you find a place to put it for a start, you have to see dog tracks. And when you see the dog tracks you know you are on the beat. So you pick a place where they've gone against a bush and scratched and if you can't find that well you pick a place yourself. You scratch and you set the trap in the middle of the scratch up against the bush, not too close, and you put a stick about as thick as your finger only longer across the front of it. Also it's a good idea to put one on the other side too in case he comes in from that distance and of course as he steps over the stick he steps onto the trap. That's the idea but when I finished trapping, when I gave it up I used to shoot them, I found that a lot easier. The thing was to find the dog then, but I had no trouble to find them.

Well of course I put a road up to the springs and a lot of people don't know about that. There is a road from the Pallinup at the building place there, the point, right up to springs. There were good springs there. They were all yates, hill yates. And its got breakaway that's washed away a bit. And its got this fern around it, bracken fern around it. There was a lot of springs rose up there. They were never used; they were found I suppose but never used. They were nice fresh water.

Of course there were plenty of places around the beach that were very interesting too, there are caves and that. Very interesting. Bee hives, plenty of beehives. We used to get all our own honey. Very interesting country around there on the banks, granite. Of course there was a road up the river too on both sides. There was a mine up there I used to work a bit because there was a seam there I used to make all sorts of gems out of. It was very good that little mine I had there. I would mine ...I don't know what the names might be now but all sorts, a big variety of stone you'd get there - but it cut out. I sold all I could. I used to go up to the Gnowangerup Show and put it in there and I would sell it in no time. Put it on brooches and things."
Amos Moore