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Sensational life Sydney 1983

Sensational life Sydney 1983

Sensational life Sydney 1983

Sensational life Sydney 1983 is no exaggeration, in fact the 80s was probably my favourite decade. A harbour side condo with my Bertram cruiser moored outside, my very own liquor store & a white Mercedes Sports.

Above are two of my best friends at the time, Wolf Wottke & Ross Ansell, we spent a lot of time in my boat on Sydney harbour & lunching at Doyle’s on the beach at Watson’s Bay.

Sydenham Cellars

Sensational life Sydney 1983 Located in Unwins Bridge Road next to the railway station. I opened it in 1980 & sold it in 1984 with a tax loss of $150,000. Luckily I owned the freehold which showed a profit of $180,000 which was tax free. That’s Madison sitting at the front door. 🙂

Boats, babes & booze

Sensational life Sydney 1983What more could a man want in life. 🙂 I feel so lucky having the fabulous life I had in the 80s, + lucky I was always a photo fanatic, & have thousands of shots to display on my photo blogs.

Marlene Cuthbert

Sensational life Sydney 1983Great lady with a sexy voice, workrd for Ansett airlines & did their announcements at the airport.

Boxing Day 1983

Sensational life Sydney 1983The start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, we used to follow the boats out to sea.

A crowded harbour

Sensational life Sydney 1983 Throw in the choppy water & you had to be very careful to avoid collisions. 🙂

Sydney heads in the distance

Sensational life Sydney 1983Great memories of my Sensational life Sydney 1983 on the world’s best harbour. 

Peak Avenue Surfers Paradise

Sensational life Sydney 1983Here I am in the middle of a plethora of gorgeous, where else would I rather be?

Always lots of parties in Peak Ave Main Beach.

Sensational life Sydney 1983That’s Chris Adams on the left & Harley Bradstreet on the right. When I often visited I would sleep on a mattress in the garage. 🙂

Never a dull moment in Peak Avenue. 🙂

Sensational life Sydney 1983 That’s Rob Rubis on the left, a well known Gold Coast chick magnet in the fabulous 80s.

Judy Paris a pretty blonde babe

Sensational life Sydney 1983Judy was tangled up in a messy court case in 1952 when her husband Bobby Lulham was poisoned by his mother-in-law. 

A few days in Melbourne

Sensational life Sydney 1983

Ross Ansell with his 2 daughters Tanya & Fiona, Marlene Cuthbert & I stayed at Ross’s pub in Curzon St North Melbourne.

The Black Prince

Sensational life Sydney 1983Doesn’t look too special but we had some great nights there.

Back to Sydney for a Drummoyne BBQ.

Sensational life Sydney 1983I lived in Wrights Rd Drummoyne for 6 years from 1979, & wow! Diddn’t we have some parties there. Here I am with Dirk Kammerling, aka Dirk Suave.

View from my apartment

Sensational life Sydney 1983 Life was very good for me in the 80s.

This gorgeous babe live just around the corner.

Sensational life Sydney 1983 A well known Sydney model Yolande did a popular toothpaste commercial in 1969. 

Macleans Toothpaste Advert 1969

Meet Helen & Roylene

Sensational life Sydney 1983 Two of my favourite party girls.

Lets have a closer look

Sensational life Sydney 1983 One of the many dinner parties at my apartment.

Sensational life Sydney 1983

Sensational life Sydney 1983It seemed like the end of an era, meet Karen Smith who became my 3rd & final fiancee, we moved to 31 Herbert Avenue Newport & parted 3 years later. So I packed up my belongings & moved to Surfers Paradise. 🙂

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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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