Kai "Happy" Hansen on airport duty: "Todays searches are on young ladies only"
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What do you get when you combine a pet crocodile named Casey, a castaway nicknamed Happy, a secluded island ‘hotel’, and an open bar? A very unique Northern Territory adventure smack bang in the middle of the croc-infested Adelaide River at the sprawling ramshackle Goat Island Lodge.
The owner, Kai Hansen, came to Australia from Denmark as a young man and moved to Goat Island to escape city life — he had been living in a rural town outside Darwin when he heard they were going to replace the roundabout with traffic lights. That was the last straw and fifteen years ago when he bought Goat Island for "the price of a nice house in Darwin's northern suburbs".
upstream from the Adelaide River boat ramp. “Call Jim at Arafura Boat Hire
(08 8988 1265) and tell him I sent you,” Happy advises. “He’ll sort you out.”
"This is my kingdom and I am the king! I'm an autocrat and I make the rules", says the 65-year-old Kai Hansen as he stands under a sign that reads, "WARNING - YOU ARE NOW ENTERING A POLITICALLY INCORRECT AREA. NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR INSULTS FROM STAFF".
I hope to find my own Goat Island before all the political correctness in this country gets my goat.
P.S. There's more here and here and here.
P.P.S. According to www.naa.gov.au, Kai Hansen arrived in Darwin on a QANTAS flight on 9 July 1948:
