Good the bad & the truth, the

"The Good The Bad & The Truth" are six sets of true stories, creating some 120,315 words of none-stop laughs. All set in some seriously rough periods in and around the developing remote Kimberley, and the new West Australian town of Kununurra."The Royal picnic" tells in painful detail my experience as the captain of a private chartered boat trip, travelling up the Ord River to entertain the visiting Crown Prince of Thailand. This boat trip quickly became a bureaucratic nightmare. Then with a little help, and much luck, I managed to save the accident-prone Prince three times in as many hours from serious injury."The diamond fever epidemic" is a true and accurate description of the twisted and deceptive race to find what would eventually become AK1, the worlds largest producing diamond mine."Do you agree I was here first?" This is a moving true story of how my business partner and I were involved with the original Argyle mining claim and registration of this huge diamond mine, and the unusual dramatic build-up to its discovery."The curse of Gold" is a very spooky story. Four gold prospectors, working together find a perfect 27oz gold nugget. Within a month, all four faced with death in differing circumstances, places, and time? The first frightening tragedy only hours from the gold find, with the loss of an arm."Tale of two wives" will have you laughing nonstop? What some men do when they run away from their wife and the city family home. Then head for the bush a new life? and wife? only to die rather expectantly."Strange facts" uncovered. Not many know the Kimberley area in Western Australia on the Ord River was named after Lord Kimberley, the British Secretary of State for the colonies. Six years prior, this same bloke had named the Kimberley area on the Orange River in South Africa, both areas known for their huge diamond mines. The SA diamond mines discovered in 1873, and the WA AK1 mine discovered in 1979, yes exactly 100 years apart, both rivers initialled O.R.Then we have "The Majeed gold mine" owned by Mukarram Jah, the Eighth Nizam of Hyderabad. This gentleman had more gold stashed in his cutlery drawer than he ever extracted from his mine. No matter for concern, he just wanted to own a gold mine? However, his employees wanted far more.