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lot’s more hanging around in broome

lot’s more hanging around in broome

lot’s more hanging around in broome. got to have a drive in BB’s holden hk 1969 ute. fucking ace. 3 gears on the column, drum brakes all round and all the safety features of a hole in the ground. a new favourite pass time of mine is to find a crazy crab (hermit crab is [...]

I’ve never really been fishing before

I’ve never really been fishing before

I’ve never really been fishing before, and the idea of fishing still doesn’t excite me, but when the opportunity to go on a one off tour in a big 4 wheel drive over some rocks and up some beaches to catch sharks i was front seat. to tell the truth someone else had front seat. [...]

“broome time”

“broome time”

“broome time” a phrase you are told about as you enter the town. I wasn’t impressed with such a slack tourist advertising slogan… soon after arriving i found i had entered broome time, not an advertising slogan but a way of life. it’s not that you have to wait for anything there, it just takes [...]

Miles from anywhere

Miles from anywhere (as usual) we stopped for a piss in a hut. there was lot’s of graffiti, one felt tip slogan read “australia makes you believe in god”. others had agreed in other coloured felt tips. a few hours of staring out the window later, thinking how all that land used to be underwater, [...]

it wasn’t boring being driven to broome

it wasn’t boring being driven to broome

it wasn’t boring being driven to broome, because i found the dull view so fascinating. i took time from looking out the window to take these pictures out of the window. denham (600 km from perth) carnarvon (900 km) exmouth (1200 km) tom price (1600 km) port headland (1900 km) broome (2332 km) as you [...]

New Year 03

stayed in exmouth for 3 days

stayed in exmouth for 3 days

stayed in exmouth for 3 days, which was nice, much time spent by the pool chatting to ronald, an ex disney land paris donald duck turned customs official in amsterdam. he gave me some good advice on international smuggling. then we all hired some scooters and a yellow bug named ernie and went to find [...]

RUM (not rum)

I asked the bar man for a rum and coke, he gave me a can of bundy – it’s a sickly drink, but once mixed with coke it’s similar to the captain, so hurrah for Australia for serving rum and coke not only in cans at petrol stations, but in bottles at clubs and on [...]

52 degree heat

52 degree heat

After some hard work relaxing at castle alder the girls talked me into getting on a mini bus tour and being driven 1500 miles north into 52 degree heat. I thought this a bad idea, but for fear of over relaxation i paid up and got on. soon into the trip i was climbing through [...]