HOW WE SEE IT! Saturday Snapshot

With Bryan Littlely and Shaun Hollis

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Cartoon by SHAUN HOLLIS

Douglas Date Night

There has been plenty of love and romance across the Shire this week.

Now, fellas, if you forgot to book a nice dinner out on Friday on the most obvious day on the calendar to do so, you might actually this week get away with the excuses of “there’s no food in town” or “the power was out”.

But most Missos will see right through that, knowing that our local hospitality businesses have worked their collective bums off this past fortnight to keep service ticking along.

All is not lost, though, and you can save your skin by buying a couple tickets to the Sydney Hotshots show on at the Oaks Resort next Wednesday, February 19.

Two tickets: One for your lady and one for her friend. You will be back in the good books in no time with the misso, and probably a mate who also forgot Valentine’s Day.

Help a mate out, HotShot

 

Catch of the day

Did you date Ol Mate?

The mysterious and moody, quietly confident fisherman on the rocky outcrop along Captain Cook Highway has to be the catch of the day, surely!

At a strapping 188cm tall, with the fashion sense of Starsky and Hutch and sporting the most magnificent mullet south of Mossman, Ol Mate has wooed the Shire this week and has left us all heartbroken with his disappearance.

We all remain hopeful whoever made off with Ol Mate did so out of care for him only, gives him a make over and puts him back to share the love around… because we’re hooked on him!

Plenty of fish but only one ‘Ol Mate’

 

Join the club

I am not against progress at all, but can we wind the clock back for Port Douglas to the ‘90s please?

Silvers, Danny’s, Fluid…. That sounds like a lot of fun, empty wallets and sore heads for next day snorkelling recovery sessions to fix.

Yes, yes. I know we have to move with the times and grow up, even "adult" a bit.

But judging by the more than 100 comments on our story of a proposed new nightclub and tapas bar in Macrossan Street earlier in the week, I’m not the only one who doesn’t want to!

Party like it’s 1999

 

A 'wine' over a headline

We copped a bit of a whack over a "sensational" headline on Friday's first story of the day about the washed out Wangetti Trail, "Tourists stranded by Wangetti washout''.

A couple of social media commentators seem to think we deliberately write headlines to get the attention of readers so the stories are read.... unique concept!

One, with a media background themself, even suggested a big media company takeover had taken place, but is more off track than any tourist could ever get, even on the washed-out Wangetti Trail.

And we already know the person who posted the comment suggesting it is situation normal for us to write sensational headlines barely reads our articles. There's more than 50 stories this month alone topped by more mundane headers than there are sharks stalking fishermen off the coast of Douglas Shire!

While I know regular columnist Crispin Hull is a fan of my award-winning headline writing, I'm sure neither of those two statements win me much favour with a small section of hundreds of regular comment contributors. 

The truth of the troublesome story topper is quite simply explained by its writer, our cartoonist Shaun Hollis.

"Can't a guy have a few wines anymore?"

Watered down wine headline after a whine

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