Some of you know that I am working on a history of the Australian Reptile Park with a colleague from Newcastle Uni, Nancy Cushing. Anyway, we have collected lots of photographs of the Park in its early days, as well as photos that the Park's original owner, naturalist Eric Worrell had taken. So I thought I might share some of them on the blog. Worrell was a rather good photographer and he took many photos of the people he met in his travels. The one above is of a buffalo hunter taken in what is now Kakadu National Park.
How many thousands of photographs like this one exist?
There's a story here which I won't go into now - you'll have to wait for the book! Needless to say the boy was not so much worried about the scrub python as he was of Worrell...take a closer look at Worrell's grip on his hair..."i was jiggled like a tea bag'
"I was taught from a very young age to always where white gloves when handling 'gators"
A dinosaur and his girl.
Some of you know that I am working on a history of the Australian Reptile Park with a colleague from Newcastle Uni, Nancy Cushing. Anyway, we have collected lots of photographs of the Park in its early days, as well as photos that the Park's original owner, naturalist Eric Worrell had taken. So I thought I might share some of them on the blog. Worrell was a rather good photographer and he took many photos of the people he met in his travels. The one above is of a buffalo hunter taken in what is now Kakadu National Park.
How many thousands of photographs like this one exist?
There's a story here which I won't go into now - you'll have to wait for the book! Needless to say the boy was not so much worried about the scrub python as he was of Worrell...take a closer look at Worrell's grip on his hair..."i was jiggled like a tea bag'
"I was taught from a very young age to always where white gloves when handling 'gators"
A dinosaur and his girl.
1 comment:
That is truly TRULY bizarre on so many levels. From the python man, to the white gloves, to the platinum blond with ominous tapeworm/dinosaur. Brilliant!
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