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In April it was the 20th anniversary of the Chinese boat landing at Scotts Head that captured your clicks ...
It might be 20 years ago but Club Scotts greenkeeper Gary Witte remembers it like yesterday ... the 38 metre boat, the Zhu Gan Tou, stranded on Scotts Head Beach that brought 61 Chinese to our shores.
"It was a wet rainy Saturday morning, I was driving to work and it was still pretty dark and I passed a group of well-dressed Asians walking towards the highway," Gary said.
"I thought there must be a tourist bus broken down ... I passed a couple more groups and then I saw someone being assisted and I thought perhaps there had been an accident.
"Or maybe even a boat washed up on the beach."
When he got to work there were two other blokes there and after a bit of joking around, they went over to the beach to have a look.
