I only stayed for one whole day and two nights before making my own way to Melbourne to start a new life in a new country, which means I never had time to get the Bonegilla Blues. Others did, if this BULLETIN article of November 1961 is anything to go by.
In on the 8th of August 1965 (exactly fifty-five years ago to the day!) ...
Date of Arrival 8 Aug 1965; MOI (?) 10/8/65
... and out on the 10th, just long enough to have this picture taken:
It was my shortest stay in a life of fifty-five short stays in over fifteen countries across four continents which came to a permanent halt thirty-five years later in little Nelligen on the Far South Coast --- more here.
