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Gold Coast-life-1997

Gold Coast life 1997

Dinner on my Jetty

Wonderful Gold Coast life 1997

Gold Coast life 1997

Wonderful Gold Coast life 1997, never a dull moment, the year was rather significant heralding the last year I actually had a job. I decided to take a year off work and travel, little did I realise I would never really work again.

In the photo I’m having dinner with friends on my jetty at my beautiful Gold Coast home at 106 Upton St Bundall. On the left is “the Doc” with his 16 yo concubine Rachel, Ross & Mariana Kennedy and Mary Simpson who I recently  found again online living in Amsterdam.

This it not part of my travel blog, just part of my personal photo & travel history from 2000.

Posing in my Porsche

Gold Coast life 1997

 

A few months after this shot Rachel gave the Doc aka Michel Grey the flick & hooked up with Wendell Sailor from the Brisbane Broncos.. 🙂 🙂 🙂

One more did you say?

Gold Coast life 1997

 

How sweet she is.

A great look in front of the fire

Gold Coast life 1997

Another name that alludes me, but once again it’s the photo that matters.


Adelaide with old friends

Gold Coast life 1997

Grahame Farquhar and Flo and the Brookers in Adelaide, good friends from when I lived in Adelaide in the early 70s. We caught up again when I visited Adelaide in October 2014.

Fatty Francis

Gold Coast life 1997

Big Bob Francis was a well known DJ, much later he became a “shock Jock” and finally retired in 2013. Robert Neville “Bob” Francis OAM is a former talk back radio presenter on South Australian radio station 5AA. His program aired between 8 pm and 12 midnight weekdays and was rated as Adelaide’s most popular talk back program.

An emotional farewell from Bob Francis

Sadly Bob passed away in 2016, RIP buddy.

Lunch at Lynch’s in South Yarra.

Gold Coast life 1997

We have just returned from a trip to Bali where we stayed in Albert Mantello’s beautiful waterfront home. Albert is in the middle beside Paul Lynch who owned the famous restaurant and Ross Ansell a well known Melbourne character.

Albert Mantello and Paul Lynch.

Gold Coast life 1997

The guys spent a weekend at my home on the Gold Coast, they both loved their wine. It looks to me like a bottle of Tyrrell’s Long Flat Red. 🙂

Sadly Albert passed away September 26 2021 at the age of 87. It was a pleasure to know him. If you have the time please check out THIS LINK.

 Adele is one very gorgeous babe.

Gold Coast life 1997

 

My last job was a short stint as an editor for a tourist magazine call Today Tonight and Tomorrow. Not much of a job but great side benefits like hiring and photographing sexy babes like Adele. 🙂 

AFL Grand Final

Gold Coast life 1997

St Kilda played Adelaide at the MCG in front of 99,645 people and lost by 31 points.

Master Chef

Gold Coast life 1997

 

The semi naked Master chef, chilli mud-crab I caught and cooked myself.

Karen Underwood

Gold Coast life 1997

 

My lovely ex girlfriend from 1991, after all these years we remained friends.

Sunday session at Upton St

Gold Coast life 1997

 

Another Sunday lunch at Upton St.

Jaunita and Butch

Gold Coast life 1997

What a beautiful face, and I don,t mean Butch aka Ian Campbell. 🙂

 Jaunita featured in my Wonderful Gold Coast life 1997

Wonderful Gold Coast life 1997

Absolutely beautiful.

My favourite song from 1997

 Donna Turner

Gold Coast life 1997

 

Another smoking hot babe, she certainly made my kitchen look glamorous. 🙂

Lets finish as we started

Wonderful Gold Coast life 1997

Relaxing in the spar with Simone, a gorgeous girl and a bottle of Stollies, Gold Coast life in 1997 was pretty bloody good. 🙂 🙂 🙂

Thanks for visiting my Wonderful Gold Coast life 1997 photo blog.

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Author: David Herd

My history, particularly over the last 30 years is dominated by overseas travel. I sold my home in Australia October 20th 2011 and have have been living in Thailand since then. I don’t know where the time has gone? It seems like you go to sleep one night, wake up the next morning, and 20 years have flashed by. Not sure how many years I have left, however I have enjoyed a wonderful charmed life, and if it all ended today I would leave this world with no regrets. I was born in Sydney halfway through the last century, started my travels in the 60s with the usual U.K. Europe adventure at the age of 20, back to Australia and worked in Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide in Sales & Marketing with multinational companies including Sanyo, Canon & Remington. Engaged to be married 3 times and never quite made it to the alter, finally realized by the mid 90s I was not cut out for "long term relationships" so I moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland in January 1987, worked for a couple of banks as a Financial Planner, I took a year off work in 1998 to travel and never went back to full time work again, after 25 fun filled years on the Coast I packed up and moved to Thailand. What is the purpose of this blog? Well I really want to use it to record my travel experiences & to display my photographs, give and receive travel tips, comment on places I visit, restaurants I eat in and use it to replace the autobiography I intended to write, apart from all that it helps me fill in my day. :) I moved to Thailand mainly because I wanted to keep travelling while my health allowed me to, there are huge advantages being closer to all the places I want to visit. Cost of living in Thailand is around 35% of the cost in Australia, plus flights are 50% cheaper because you are much closer to everywhere. ???? Consequently I am able to travel to many more places compared to living in Australia. Having said all that, it is & has always been my intention to return to Australia when my travelling is finished, I predict this will happen around 2021.

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