‘Be careful what you say,’ said my friend, ‘this guy is fanatical about the local colony of parrots and if he suspects this new port proposal will scare even one of his parrots, the port project is dead!’
This was serious stuff for a remote area a few years ago.
The man picked us up in his mini-bus and we drove to inspect the local foreshore area.
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