Published November 2024 | Pages 258 | Paperback  

A rugged but true tale of an 18 year old youth travelling through outback Australia in the late sixties.
Bruce had left his home near Melbourne in search of adventure and respite from a broken heart: what he found was some of the wildest characters to be found in the Australian bush and nothing could have prepared Bruce for the testosterone driven shearing sheds of outback Queensland in 1969!

Meet feared shed fighter Knuckles as he bullies his way through the shearing season while rouseabout car racing fiends Gaz and Bluey make the regular 50 kilometre trip to the pub the most hair raising experience of a lifetime. Meanwhile the extremes of the hard work in the shearing sheds demanded a high protein diet that was almost as difficult to describe as it was to digest.

Following on from Bruce’s first memoir ‘Catch The Wind – From The Nullarbor To The Far Northwest in 68’ this entirely new memoir faithfully records his always memorable, sometimes brutal, but often hilarious ongoing travel adventures.