Mike.....1948
Mike....2018
Mike (right)....and family 1991
Mike and friends.....park anywhere...side of road 1962
oh no ... lost our boards '62
My Brother Phil......Whangarei NZ 2000
Phil....skateboarding 1962
Paul Haywood in his spitfire
Mike and Billy Prichard.....Phil driving 1963
Bill
bit like Bills 4 wheel drive
3 wheeler
Bees....
Mike, ........Capetown, South Africa 1973 .....Table Mountain Cable Car
Those romantic old steam engines
50s soda pop
The house that Dad built.....
The view.......
Mike.....and his Brycream slick back hair..1959
Mike.......in the Tearooms
Main road north.....down our drive
My good friend 15yr old Wayne (now deceased).....our 'woodey'............1948 Hillman ....1962
Mike....big Raglan NZ 1963...no legropes
15 yr old Mike at his favourite surf spot...Pataua NZ 1962
Empty Pataua 1962
Ahipara, NZ.....just us guys out again 1963.....brother Phil on wave Brett walking out..Wayne about to take off..... and 2 other of our mates....funny 3 now deceased......good ol days
Mike Kings ....classic surf wagon of the early 60s
Mike...Power Station NZ 1965
artiificial reef 1965...laying pipes...Marsden Power Station NZ
15 yr old Mike......
Viet Nam.....
Noosa...Johnsons......just us guys out '66
Our crew...... Noosa 1968
The crew .....Maroochydore Australia
Greg 'Hang 10'.....fun days ....Sandy Bay mid 60s
Mike 1965.....Maroochydore Aussie
5ft 10 and 6ft 6 swallows.....made for Jeffries Bay
Billy Player.....Noosa
Mike and his hayden Kenny surfboard
Ken Rouw Noosa '66.....all alone
Kens monument
Building stereos.......Sth Africa
late 60s
St. Peppers
Mike top row .......cute aye!
Ken, and wife, Nepal 1970
Ken..Himalayas......1970
Nigeria '72
Jeffries '69
Mike (right) and brother Phil
typical 60s
ye old Super 8
finally got to Sumatra
Keith Walsh...Richard Harvey.....Bali '73......foot fun
...beanie..
London 1972......Mike and new Scotchman friend
our friends John and Di
Kombi motor....
Getting vehicles ready for trip...South Devon
Kombi tanks on roof
Painting Kombi green
Apple picking...Kent
trying out this Safari lifestyle......New Forest, Devon
Attacked by wild animal
Algeria
Kiwi.... Viet Nam demonstrations
John and Di say goodbye.......back to Rhodesia
Beautiful 'La Barre' left hander.....found in movie 'Evolution'
France.....empty beaches
Crossing Straights of Gibralter
Heading for North Africa 1972
dodgy hotel staircase
hookers
smokiing hooker...
bit like my slack drawing
Mike.... the dodgy Moroccan
Aziz....real Moroccan....national dope smoking greeting ....true!!
Moroccan seaside homes
Meknes 1972
what a difference 25 yrs make
Paula washing Arab kids hair...Algeria 1972
short wave radio
our camping spot
Bowie knife
Paula making lunch
jeep and soldier...bit like this
Short wave radio
Propaganda galore
Islamic countries..got in on the act
Scary....
last town before Sahara
Repairs
wondered why this timber was here
bought it like this......
last place to buy petrol before Sahara
making roads 1972
Sahara crossing Authorisation
Tamanrasset,.....crossing Sahara 20 Nov 1972
beginning of Sahara track
camping here for the night
fibre glass-up tank nozzles
suspect spouts
8 ton Army truck
piles of rocks
bike hooter on the lefft
hooter on right side
great Tuareg family
just minded their own business
Tuareg boss
the ceiling in a Tuaregs hut
Katrina and Paula try on some Tuareg clothes
''naaa....looks better on mum''
100 year old sword
Tuaregs today
2021 Tuaregs
Paula....Sub Sahara campfire
Idi Amin
sand storm
doomed employees
abandoned helicopter
another abandoned helicopter
Abandoned Army material
erected 2005
barb wire fence put up 2005
large red ring.. where detonation took place.....small ring....us
rubbish everywhere....1972....was tempted to take 1 of those helmets (on the left)
Radiation even mushroomed to Europe
motor bike....awesome...
chasing these Ostriches
Our first water hole at the edge of the desert
Kano 1972
Mau Mau anti-colonial uprising
dropping our friends at a Catholic Mission
Mobutu's jungle mansion
Another Catholic Mission in the Congo 1972
Lee....
The Congo.....start of monsoons
monsoon mud , mud ,mud ......main road thru Africa
main road bridge
about 2 inches freeboard....scary
Hippo......
ripening pinapple on roof
butterflies like this
Kembe falls
20ft dugout canoe
dope by the basketfull
dinnertime
Genocide Burundi 1972
Burundi 1972
bit like this
top of the cliff
extended wheel rims
Paula equator
kinda-shops
monkey skin covered quiver ...hanging on wall........and poison tipped arrows
pygmie village
Burundi was like this 1972
monsoon
Serengeti
nosy zebras
empty lodge...vultures
animals everywhere
monkeys climbing all over the place
big bull elephant
hippos .....around the corner
all alone in the Serengeti
Ngorongoro Crater
Mt Kilamanjaro
me surfing mate Gina.....in later years of course
John and Di's wedding in Salisbury
Paula Bridesmaid
pregnant Paula...Capetown
at Tich's wedding.....Mike, Bree, and Peirs.....Tich's wife Jennny on left
Deceptive 'Outer Kommetjie' ........Capetown......'cold Atlantic Ocean' 1973
Kombi....now a work horse 1973
6'6'' swallow i made for Jeffries....and the swing for Bree (daughter)...ha!
my workshop...
John and Sue 1975
John and fam ...Carribean 1981
Takin a cruise....1975
Mike surfing LLandudno ......Capetown 1975
Mike ....the awesome empty Power Station NZ 1980
my home in Perth 1999
more recent..........my girls
my kids never quite got it
Huntington beach LA.....Mike 2015.....when i had no complaints....mind you.....now 74yrs old .... cant complain really
awesome reunion
the 4 surfing King brothers
Paula
Mike with movie camera.....all the film we lost over the years
our hippie kiwi friends on our boat to Singapore......Frank and Anne
met some locals...England
Paula terrifying Ian
Woolacombe...our home for several months..tide goes out a long way
Working on the Kombi
Woolacombe, South Devon, England
our comfortable kombi
all the mod-cons
groovin to tapes
Terry.....our Aussie friend
Terry...clowning around
Woollacombe England...Di Huxom
on the way to the New Forest
our first camp-out
New Forest
the big Afican test run
attacked by wild animals
beautiful England
Jon and Di check out a castle
Di....great temperment
Mike and Jon...river watching
Paula and Di
my brother apple-picking here in '68
Paula.....we followed suit....in '72
Mike ......apple-picking
Jon and Di heading for Rhodesia
what a buzz....France
Spainish border
Aussie surfer John....big cows in Spain
Portugal
Lisbon Portugal
Lisbon Portugal 1972
Portugal
Portugal 1972
Jon checking out Nazere beach (i think) Portugal 1972
Portugal 1972
Portugal
Cueta Nth Africa.....doin a deal
all these oranges...wow
Fez Morroco
heading for the Sahara......Algeria
heating up
dosent look good
very barren
another one didnt make it....and no rust
Sahara ...lonely camel...1972
camel train.....Sahara 1972
southern Sahara Berber...... hitch hiker
first water hole.......Southern Sahara
Drawing water.....Niger
our first wild animal..... ha!
a chemelion
Chacing ostrich's
Niger.....first village
cotton......their economy
Kano.....Nigeria
Kano....blue die works
modern part of the city of Kano...... Nigeria
suddenly.....we're in Africa
African washing clothes
Boali falls .......Central African Republic
lunch time..Central African Republic
Mike mesmerised by Boali falls
Mbali River hit by the monsoons......Central Africa
monsoon flood waters.....could be a problem
Catholic Mission......Congo with some Japanese friends
Lee
African violence
Congo river
Kembe Falls....Congo
up river from the Kembe Falls
Congo river....Kembe Falls
paddled up here in my borrowed canoe
hippoes in the water
monkeys in the jungle trees
Congo river
close to where we spotted the butterflies.........big bamboo.....dodgy bridges
our transport across the Congo River
good lookin ferry
crossing the Congo River
regular occurance......often by terrorists
scarey bridges needed checking
not to sure about us.....trying to sell monkey
main road thru Africa........single lane
having our weekly bath and clothes washing
Congo River....huge river in the middle of Africa
our third river crossing
endless termite mounds
waited 3 days until we crossed it.....at its peak was 5ft deep
Paula making lunch in the Serengeti
animals everywhere..
friendly deer
friendly Zebra
inquisitive warthog
got a bit over freindly when we were having lunch
had to chase the Zebras away
was always herds running everywhere......wildebeeste
view from our breakfast table
heading into the unknown.....down the other side of Ngorongoro Crater
another Ostrich
Catholic mission in Rwanda
Rwanda...was forging ahead in its building programme
typical African.....mud hut
and typical thatched roof
Raiding nearby farms and butchering farmers
down 'The Garden Route' to Capetown
monkeys on the side of the road
finally made it to Capetown
7 month pregnant Paula.....Capetown
our home for the next 3 yrs.....Capetown South Africa
spectacular Table Mountain
Table Mountain scarrey cable car
awesome peaks at LLandudno ......Capetown 1975
LLandudno ......Capetown 1975
awesome.....Chapmans Peak Drive....Capetown
Kenilworth.....our first Capetown digs
'Brookhouse'......Rondebosch Capetown.... Mike, Bree, and stereo speakers
Paul Pretorious
we visit 'innerKom' with John and Sue.....before they sailed off to the Carribean
met locals Rob, Hanze, and Hazel......and their kombi
Mike surfing awesome kelp laden 'Inner Kom'......John and Tash watch on
surfing 'Danger reef' with our Aussie surfing friend Jack
family time Jeffries Bay
Carribean bound .....Capetown surfer John and Sue....explaining Capetown