Ali had the arms of a fisherman, the legs of a sailor, for so long a time he lived from the riches of the sea.

Working from sunrise to sunset on the turn of tides with hooks and lines and nets he made his living.

Once he was a young man, now he is an old man, but his eyes shine bright when he talks about the sea and he caught with his hands, the fish that fed the islands.

Ali Drummond is a young man when he talks about the sea.

— Old men and the sea from the album Island way, by Seaman Dan, Karl Neuenfeldt and Kyana-Lili Neuenfeldt Pearson (2005)