This is the last in my current nostalgia series. The photo was taken in October 1990 at Victoria Falls from the Zambian side. I did a week-long tour of Zimbabwe and really enjoyed the spectacle of the falls. With another Australian, two Swiss and an Italian we hired bikes, hazarded the border crossing and took [...]
Me and Peter McGauran
Continuing my photo scanning and recollections, this entry is sure to fuel the fire of local Labor conspiracy theorists who warned John Bowler I was a National Party hack out to get him. John and I have a good working relationship, and for the record I am not a member of any political party. In [...]
Allergic to horses
Me and horses just don’t get along. This picture shows me on a horse for about the first time. I was visiting friends at Gelantipy in 1986 and climbed aboard this rather docile creature. It was a reasonably pleasant experience and it probably lulled me into a false sense of security and ambition. A few [...]
St Michael’s prep class 1972
This is my first school photo: prep at St Michael’s, Traralgon, in 1972. Interesting to note there were 38 children in the class. I still remember some of the kids. I think 1972 was the only year for me that boys had to wear ties as part of the uniform, or maybe it lasted another [...]
Cadet journalist
I discovered some photo albums in the garage today and decided to scan a few pictures in case they ever get lost. The albums cover the period from leaving home in the mid 80s to when I started using digital cameras around 2001. This picture is of me working as a cadet journalist at the [...]
