CRIMESITE: WED AUG 24

Thanks for hanging in there guys. Mick is sitting up in hospital bed cracking jokes with his entire family around him. So Surrey and I are off up the Gulf first thing tomorrow. Barramundi calling.

DANNO

CRIMESITE: WED AUG 22

Tired as tonight. And thinking about what else I didn’t see or hear. For instance the Crimson

Finch. Should have been there. Wasn’t. No wonder Tom Mccreadie didn’t want us on the

property and no wonder he was burning.

            

Talk tomorrow. Very big day coming up.

DANNO

CRIMESITE: TUE AUG 21

Surrey is in. He can borrow a rangers truck. Also knows an old hunting trail we can use. Just the perimeter guards to get past. Will camp overnight. Wish us luck guys…

CRIMESITE: MON AUG 20

Guys, About the arrest - fire is regarded as an agricultural tool up here but things can go wrong. Unhappily for Tom McCreadie, he lost control of a back-burn last week and it cleared 20 hectares of his neighbour prime pasture. In a rage the neighbour complained to the police. Talk about an uproar. Even though the number of back burns on Candy Downs Station are way more than other properties no one wants the police controlling back burning on private property. The neighbour is now refusing to testify and you’ve probably seen the response from LPK. Tom McCreadie is the local bush fire brigade captain but, if he is not also a firebug why would he be so stupid to back burn that often.

Enough rambling for one night. Go to bed you crazy people.

DANNO

CRIMESITE: FRI AUG 17

Becoming a game of nerves now.  Reading Hemmingway about fishing in Basque country. V inspiring.

DANNO

CRIMESITE: THU AUG 16

Trying to imagine what the crime site might look like was doing my head in so, taking Mayor Nina at her word, I thought I’d call Manager Tom McCreadie and we’d be able to have a reasonable conversation. Wrong. So then I called LPK, on the grounds that she was a woman of reason. Wrong again. She may well be Prime Minister material as she’s certainly not for turning. If the patrol wasn’t armed it would be different. If they were patrolling any station other than Candy Downs Station it would be different. So it’s a waiting game. Waiting for the right opportunity. Been asking around about the Totem paintings. Apparently they are most important paintings to come out the area for years. Most people have never seen Totem 1 but they way they talk about it - it’s like it was in the next room.

Can’t understand the LPK decision on that one either. 

Going for a swim to clear the head.

DANNO

CRIMESITE: WED AUG 15

First Mayor Nina and now Lawrence Spletsky seems to want to be a Crime Site Investigator. Don’t know whether this town is big enough for the three of us! Despite everything this really is amazing country. Boab trees, hundreds of years old. Creek beds and riversides lined with magnificent old paperbarks. Brolga and jabirus dancing in the swamps.

Maybe it is big enough...

DANNO