The chief executive of the National Parks Association of New South Wales, Andrew Cox, was reported in today's The Sydney Morning Herald saying that he would "die in a ditch" protecting national parks from commercialisation by the tourism industry.
Back of Bourke, May 2005. Photograph taken by Jennifer Marohasy
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Other posts in this series:
part 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1820, Theodore Roosevelt 1903, Donald McKinley 1963, William Tucker 1982, Phil Cheney 2003.
part 2 Martin Thomas, 2003.
part 3 Travis, May 2008.
part 4 John Brinckerhoff Jackson, 1994.
part 5 Wes George, 2008.
part 6 Cohenite, 2008.
part 7 Roy Spencer, 2008.
part 8 Libby, 2008
part 9 Spangled Drongo, 2008
part 10 Walter Starck, 2008
part 11 Neil Hewett, 2008
Whether the sea or the bush it be,
The heart of a man prevails.
Henry Lawson
In this case it's probably more "the spirit".
Thanks for that Neil, always wondered what happened to Michael Fomenko. He was my hero back in the '50s.
You come across similar types at sea and in the bush who are happy to wear the most hostile wilderness like a glove. Not all as extreme as MF though.
It's generally a young man's game.
(Excerpt from http://www.andycollins.com/lake-street-serenade.htm
>In 1955, at the age of 24, Michael Fomenko, the son of Princess Machabelli, a member of the pre- revolutionary Russian aristocracy, left Sydney and headed to the far north to realise his dream of living in the jungle. Killing crocodiles and wild pigs with only a machete, living with remote Cape York aborigines, paddling his dugout canoe from the Daintree River to the Torres Strait and countless other adventures, Michael is legendary for his amazing exploits in the deep jungles of the empty north and is Australia’s own real life Tarzan. Now in his seventies, Michael is still out there running to the beat of a different drum.
(See also: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=HHkmlXxEqiAC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=michael%2Bfomenko&source=web&ots=xmkMTC9tZG&sig=XuS9li5Q5coH4xiM5Yp99X3K2vc&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA54,M1.