HIDDEN TREASURES
We’ve just arrived at Innes National Park on the tip of South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula when ranger Mark Davidson issues the challenge. He hands Australian Country a piece of metal that looks a nasty weapon and asks us to guess what it is. This “thing” that could be a primitive club or truncheon is surprisingly heavy, which of course is a clue. After a few wild guesses, we give up, and Mark reveals that it’s the lead from a lead line, the depth-reckoning tool of seafarers in the days before sonar and radar. In the case of this particular piece of lead, it’s not a very successful lead line,
