PICTURE AUSTRALIA – Sam Hood, 1872 – 1932. BONDI
And the girl on the right,
the one with her hand trailing in the sand,
and her towel a modest cover,
knows here that she has lost another day.
Yet she smiles at her girl friend’s success,
The Polka Dot Girl, the girl with the tan – and visor, and silver band,
and all the mens’ eyes.
 | petebowes on cyclone oma |
 | Shane Robert Fisher on cyclone oma |
| petebowes on bondi 1958. gary moffatt |
 | COLIN JOHN COLLYER on bondi 1958. gary moffatt |
 | gary moffatt on bondi 1958. gary moffatt |
| waltham4433 on bondi 1958. gary moffatt |
‘Pete Bowes writes about surfing like no one I’ve ever read; he was a Bondi boy who moved up to Byron Bay in 1963. Between Bondi and Byron Bay, Pete crossed tracks with a rogues’ gallery – surfers, itinerants, brawlers, the lost – all of them lovingly hand-painted by Pete’s pen. His short vignettes in Bloodlines are visceral, teeth rattling, piss funny and even true, and they stretch from then to now and this horizon to that, from the poetic to the poignant to the hilarious.’
Sean Doherty, author of My Brother’s Keeper, and MP: The Life of Michael Peterson*, both published by HarperCollins.
Thank you for my wonderful late lunchtime read this Friday afternoon.