Rolling Down the Lost Highway

Day 189 - Geehi. Another Tasmanian bushfire photo. "Lost Highway" is a Hank Williams classic, it is an autobiographical morality tale, where loose women, booze, gambling and drugs and sin in general ruin your life and you end up on a lost highway. Mind you I have known some blokes who are guilty of all of the above and don't seem to be on a lost highway. I am not on the Lost Highway but gee I have met a lot of blokes who are. There seems to a be a significant number of men who have lost their way in life, either through divorce, sinning or being sinned against or some other personal tragedy who find themselves on the wallaby. Don't feel sorry for them though, they all seem to be enjoying themselves travelling and doing their own thing, they just had to escape from something to preserve their sanity.

I might do a blog on my trip to Tasmania, I am not sure what to write just yet. As part of my preparation (yes I do some preparing for this blog) I have made a list of keywords that I will talk about. To wet your appetite and to fill up a space in this weeks blog, the words are, in no particular order. Expensive, Roadkill, Logging, Underwhelming, Subsidised and Lovely People (ok I know some are two words).

Everyone knows how clever we Australians are at nicknames like :-

  • Pothole - everyone tries to avoid him.
  • Showbag - he is full of crap.
  • Bootlaces - always tied up.
  • Plover - skinny legs.
  • Jigsaw - goes to peices under pressure.
Whilst camping at Port Sorrel I met a couple who confessed that their nickname was "Bob and Dolly". I will leave you to work out what "Bob and Dolly" means, people under 50 will probably need to googlize the problem.

Now the answers to the quiz

  1. Jimmy sings 'At the bottom of this mine lies a big, big man', who is it? (Big Bad John)
  2. Who does Tammy reckon you should stand by? (Your man)
  3. Ned played an Ace and won what? (a Queen)
  4. What do the Crystal Chandeliers light up? (the paintings on your wall)
  5. What does Kenny keep asking Ruby not do? (stay at home and don't take her love to town)
  6. Patty was 'Dancing with her darling to the' what? (the Tennessee Waltz)
  7. When Leroy tells us 'To walk on by', what should we do next. (Wait on the corner)

The first two pictures are of Bothwell Golf Course. It is the oldest Golf Course in the Southern hemisphere. Note the fence around the 9th green in the second photo. Yes I did play (its only 9 holes) and I was able to confirm one of my pet theories about golf, in that there is no such thing as an easy golf course.
Bothwell Golf Course
Water pipes going down to a Hydro Electric Power Station some where at the bottom of the photo.
Looking back to main range from Dead Horse Gap in Kosciuszko National Park, (altitude 1589 metres), note that at a certain height the trees won't grow, this is unsurprisingly known as the tree line.
Same as above, but from the Geehi Camp ground.
A Furphy water tank, these were responsible for the expression "a Furphy" as in a rumour, look it up on the internets. Every tank has amongst other things an inscription that reads (and yes it is a fine sentiment, in fact I might use it as an inspiration for my golf game)
  • Good, Better, Best
    Never Let it Rest
    Till Your Good is Better
    And Your Better Best