It's a hard life down in the shacks in the harbour, for fishermen and workers and sailors. The sailor families are maybe the worst off, when the men leaves to embark their ships. Wives and children left behind, while they go away on a risky journey to far away countries. Who knows if they will ever come back?

Tansy Harley just married George, before he left. She didn't know it yet, but she was already pregnant and had to have her babies all by herself, without the support of her husband. Will he come home in the spring?	Olga Sparks moved in to help her sister, Corinne Simmons, with her small children, when her husband Tom left to go to sea.
Judith held Jack tight in her arms, the last night before he left.	Like many sailors wives, Corinne Simmons liked to watch the horizon and think about her husband.

 

 

A typical Sailor's Shack

 

Hunting Mice