Gone to Brine

Retired

Expired

Your fired!

Gone, one shipwreck

Another installment in our ongoing "Gone" series of images of structures, ship wrecks and other stuff that are no longer around - the Cherry Venture, blown ashore north of Noosa during big seas, very big seas going by the size of the human at the bow. Futile attempts to refloat were followed by removal of the salvageable machinery and then left on the beach as a tourist attraction until the briney air rusted it to a point of becoming a public safety hazard. Now gone (except on celluloid)
Summer 1975

Black and White and Blurred

Boiling Pot - Noosa  Autumn 1981

An enduring affair with the brine. Started last century. Camping at Kirra in the middle of summer before the groyne. Bodysurfing and then a pre-rashie coolite "foamie". 

Then a single fin. 

No leashes in those days.We drilled holes in our fins 

and attached a nylon rope and 

a cotton handkerchief tied at the ankle. 

Home made skateboards and bikes in between surfs. 

Stingers, Twin fins, Channel bottom thrusters. 

Camping with mates up near the wreck of the Cherry Venture north of Noosa. Hitchhiking south of Tibrogargan, over the border. Past Byron. Past Lennox. Live bands. 

University. Student demo's. Film. A homemade darkroom. 

California. Hawaii. New Zealand. Paying tax. Paying dues. 

Love. 

Living at the beach. 

Cyclonic Noosa. Epic Cartwright. Glassy Wurtulla. 

Pictures in Tracks, Line Up, Unicorn, Inside Sport.

Medium format cameras. Art college at night. 

Commuting to work. Auto break downs. 

Mortgage. 

A new century. Grief and loss. 

Music. Holga & 120 infra red film. 

Driving the Mac.

Digital darkroom in the kitchen, on the back deck - 

wherever the laptop fires up. 

Renovating.Lino-printing. 

Sliding. Smiling.

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If you come to Noosa, don't expect waves like this. 

Don't expect waves. 

Expect crowds. Expect traffic jams. 

If you find a wave, show respect. 

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