On the beach facing the ocean
I discovered these old and long-forgotten black-and-white photos from June 1976 of a trip to Yule Island with Brian Herde. I put them on the island's facebook page. Some people may recognise themselves or others from fifty years ago and get a kick out of it.
We had put up our little tent inside the disused tennis court. Next morning we found ourselves surrounded by a bunch of youngsters who belonged to an expat fisherman's family living up on the hill
When I first published these photos in 2021, I wrote, "Brian Herde would be ninety years old this year", and posed the question, "Where is he now?" That mystery was solved when I recently discovered that he had passed away in Townsville Hospital in 1999, a mere sixty-eight years old.
You've got there first again, you old bastard! Thanks for the memories!
