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Port Lincoln is on the foot of Eyre Peninsula.

It is a city with a large farming , fishing and aquaculture industry. This has made it a fast growing city with huge tourist potential.

Boston Bay is framed with hills and that gives breathtaking views of the harbour and beyond to many residents.

The water sports of yachting, fishing and diving are very popular and almost every sport is available and played here.

The seaside ports of Coffin Bay, Tumby Bay (with its new marina), Pt Neil and Arno bay are growing at break neck speed because they offer such a quiet life style.

How much patience and tolerance is needed to be the partner of a moth collector?

Trent makes my moth catching buckets, and display cases, gives me re-chargeable lights for Christmas, and drives with me to the most amazing places late at night, to set up moth traps.

I have not been able to get him out of bed at 4 a.m. to go and collect them yet, but he is comfortable with a freezer full of moths the next morning.

From the time the first female ANTHELID varia moth flew onto our verandah, I have had all the help, support and encouragement I could ask for. That has been from home, school and the gentlemen from Sydney and Canberra, not to mention the policeman from next door, who assured me I was quite safe collecting the moth traps from the scrub at 4.a.m.because " I was the only silly fool around at that time".

The children in my class, and I , will continue our study of moths in our area, as much of the scrub close to our city is being cleared for housing.

I am told Port Lincoln is expected to double in size in the next ten years.

I hope that does not mean the moth population will halve in size.