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The Power Of Hunger
The stomach overrides the mind
Have you ever known what it’s like to be truly hungry? I mean extreme hunger, where your stomach cramps until you’re doubled over in pain?
You’ll do anything for your next meal!
This photo is my ‘everything’.
It was 1989 and although my partner and I lived in paradise, we were broke. ‘On the bones of our arse’ broke!
We lived in a caravan in a near new caravan park in Broome, Western Australia, back before it was a popular tourist destination, not like it is today.
Neither of us had a job at the time. I had a spinal injury that stopped me from working and my partner was looking for work. Therefore, we had to get creative to eat.
On the day this photo was taken, we had no food whatsoever in the caravan and we were both hungry. We did however, have fuel in the car and decided we’d head to the Fitzroy River near Derby, about a two hour drive, and camp for the weekend.
The idea was to catch our own food.
Easier said than done, knowing that the Fitzroy River was home to many large salt water crocodiles. Any time we neared the waters edge we were extremely wary and on the look out for any ambush — the crocodiles wouldn’t hesitate in an easy and free meal.
