The German Pirate in Melbourne

After arriving in cosmopolitan Melbourne a friend of ours told us about Martin “the German Pirate“. He is regularly fishing and cleaning up plastic on one of the beautiful beaches here in Melbourne (St. Kilda Beach).

He is also known as the rat whisperer and you can see him feeding his friend Hugo a rare Australian water rat in this great video.

There is also a newspaper article about him here

We will take the ferry to Tasmania (called lovingly Tassie by the Aussies) tomorrow and say…