Catching on in Cairns

One day we went to a large area enclosed by 15 metre high wire-netting. I wanted to learn to throw a boomerang.

Easy, you say. Think again.

The man in charge let me throw one first. It hit the wire and fell to the ground.

He showed me the profiling, how to hold it, how to throw it.

‘You are trying to frighten prey towards you, so that you can shoot it or catch it.’

I threw and threw and eventually got it right. The boomerang came back to me.

Delighted, I bought a boomerang - and still have it.