Connection to Place, "He felt the sea pulsing under him as the little boat skimmed across the bay." p2, His whole life lay down there; everything he knew. He didn't want to leave it . . .p49, I'll wither up and die away from this place, he thought . . .This is my place. This is where I belong. p49, The Importance of Family, He was a young man still. No matter how old Abel grew, his father would always be thirty-two [in Abel's dreams]. p52, Abel stopped at the peppermint tree his mother used as a kind of shrine to his father. p49, "You look like him you know.". . .He had his father's face. p103, Connection to the Natural World, Wrasse, Sweep, Scalyfins, Blennies, Boxfish, and Blue Devils - all kinds of reef fish darted about them in bursts of colour. p5, Abel loved being underwater. He was ten years old and could never remember a time when he could not dive. p3, He felt like a speck, like a bubble on the sea left by a breaking wave. p65, The Importance of Conservation, Up and down they went, hanging onto each breath, taking a couple of abalone from each clump, leaving the rest to bread and grow. p5, People say he [Costello] takes everything he sees. p66, Costello and his offsider went back to stripping the reef bare. p85, Human Greed and Industrialisation pose a threat to the Natural Environment., It was during these years that the developers came to Longboat Bay. p94, In the morning the shark was dead . . . Abel turned the red buoy over . . . to see the name stencilled on the side, COSTELLO. p88, Abel had speared fish nearly every day but he had never seen a slaughter as this. p75 .

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