Clyde recalls the shallow and at times dangerously choppy waters of Lake George (or Weerewaa in the indigenous language) outside Canberra; a lake regarded as 'mysterious' for its cycles of drying out and filling, and unbeknown to many, a site of various yacht and ski-clubs when it was full c 1950,c1960. George recounts the huge difficulty of pulling a yacht up onto a trailer once the wind started to blow from particular directions,the danger of sailing at that time, while also retelling a joke told by a family member about making it back to shore at the Lake. These reminiscences provide great social contrast and underlining of Australia's vulnerability to drought; many travellers driving past the lake on their highway drive to Sydney, would have little idea of the lake's previous recreational life; its value to Canberra sailors or water ski-ers before the building of Lake Burley Griffin in the Capital. Many would be surprised at the thought of past generations arriving at the lake prepared with ladders to fish in Lake George.

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