Port Davey, a sheltered inlet on Tasmania's wild S-W tip, was home to a settlement of timber getters until they chopped down all the Huon Pines, which had grown for up to 3000 years.

Then it was a whaling settlement until they killed off all the whales and had to leave again.

Then it was a fishing area for crayfish — thousands were taken by scores of boats. Fortunately, the government stepped in to stop the crayfish going the way of the whales and the pine trees.

On Richard Morecroft Goes Wild: Return To Port Davey (ABC 6.30pm Saturday) we accompany two old-time cray fishermen back to Part Davey to see what it's like now. Bleakly beautiful, barren, with a sustainable crayfish population, apparently.

This is an interesting program about working people and their very different attitudes to their work.

TV programs worth watching, The Guardian November 26, 2003