Looking Back

About the Book

Dingoes proved a real menace there, so the family moved to Capella where they purchased the Paramount Theatre and a small cattle station before winning a land ballot off the failed Queensland British Food Corporation. He then married and moved to the Gold Coast then to Brunswick Heads and to another theatre. Television caused a recession in that so he went out as a deck hand on a trawler and cut timber before selling out and returning to the bush. He then took a position with British Petroleum being granted the whole of Cape as his territory. He then bought a produce agency and Stock Agency at Bowen in Queensland buying several cattle and sheep stations until a car accident killed his partner, so he sold out and bought charter boats, operating them from Brisbane to Thursday island, but after losing a deckhand retired from that and went back into business in Bowen.

About the Author

Basically the writer was raised during WW2 in Kingston SE, a small South Australian coastal town. As he grew up he tells of his experiences helping his Stock Agent father droving sheep for clients, watering them, walking them up to 20 kilometers a day, learning to ride a one pedal bike, graduating to driving as he grew older and had an apprenticeship as a bee keeper, then moved trainloads of sheep from Broken Hill down to Kingston. Some war time experiences crept in before the family moved to Queensland where the author joined his father, at first droving and shearing sheep for him, branching into timber cutting before taking on droving from New South Wales up through the sparsely settled Carnarvon Ranges the Emerald district where he joined his father buying into a much larger property.