When you meet a Wheatlian

Turns out that Wheatley (the village that we live closest to) is famous for two things – being in the Board Game 'Trivial Pursuit' (the question was where do the most Millionaires Per Capita live) and being the World's Largest Fresh Water Commercial Fishing Port.

Cool.

Millionaires and fisherman. I like 'em both. And when you meet any Wheatlian and tell them you're new, they'll tell you the two things their village is known for – and you don't even have to ask!

Last weekend we made a swing down Deer Run and saw some of the Millionaire's houses (and I would suspect that some of the people outside those houses could be said Millionaires). And ended up at the Wheatley dock (I wrote about this in my article This Isn't Normal, Is It?). It would seem that all of the commercial fishing boats are made from the same basic blueprints – they all look like the boat in the official sign.

At least some of them were painted differently (and they all had different names).

Anyway, we get to go to the Official Unveiling of the sign tomorrow and in celebration they're having an all-you-can-eat fish fry for supper – I'll have to bring my camera and let you know how that goes.

Perhaps we can incorporate the fishing culture in some of our B&B ideas… and for a Wheatlian discussing fish is certainly Bound To Please.