Tusker Beer, Vanuatu 2009 (New Hebrides

Enjoying a Tusker beer on Efate Island, Vanuatu (formerly known as the New Hebrides),  Christmas Eve 2009.

Fort Dennison, Sydney

Inside the gun room at Fort Dennison, the Martello Tower located in Sydney harbour.

This was the last Martello Tower ever built in the British Empire.  Fortification of Pinchgut island began in 1841 but was not completed. Construction resumed in 1855 because of fear of a Russian naval attack during the Crimean War, and was completed on 14 November 1857.  The guns were built in during construction of the 6.7 m thick walls of the fort, and cannot be removed.  

Tuvalu Dancers

Traditional male dancers on Tuvalu.

Australian Army

I served as an officer in the Australian Army, and in fact at one time, not being an Australian, I was technically a mercenary. 

On a course at the Army Logistics Centre, Bandiana.

After a Parade:

Before a parade:

Looking pensive in DPCU:

Mess Dress, before a Corps Dinner:

Charni Beach Bombay, Early 1980s.

Bombay, early 1980s.  This was taken from the Hanging Gardens, near the Tower of Silence on Malabar Hill, where the Parsi still left the bodies of the dead to be picked over by vultures.  

The beach is Charni Beach, and in the top right you can just see the famous Marine Drive. It curves behind the large beach in the foreground.

Marine Drive is now a high rise area.  Real estate prices along the esplanade are among the highest in India, and fourth in the world at US$2100 per square feet.


This is Marine Drive further round the beach:

Capelles Nauru

Capelles on Nauru.  The biggest and best store on Nauru, complete with bottle shop.  I lived in an apartment behind and above the supermarket. 

Japanese girl

Japanese girl