Jimbo Red
Retired on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada after spending 30 years overseas in Engineering, Procurement and Construction. involved in Oil and Gas, Pulp and Paper, Civil, Pipeline, Protective Coatings, Refinery and Chemical as well as participation "onsite" during the firefighting efforts in Kuwait after the war with Iraq. Married 5 children, 4 grandchildren and a boat.
VIDEO – GARDEN ROUTE INDIAN OCEAN AND THE WHALES 1989
This video shows a little bit of our trip from Cape Town along the Garden Route on the Indian Ocean to Port Elizabeth. We had rented a vehicle and were just making a tour along the coast. When we finished…
VIDEO – BLUE TRAIN TO CAPE TOWN – AFRICA’S ORIENT EXPRESS
I know, I know I said I was almost done with videos. Again this is an edited version of a much more boring video. My god, I felt like snoozing (and I think I did) while editing this. This is…
VIDEO – SEYCHELLES, SAND, SUN, GIRLS AND PIRATES
Yet another video from our time in Africa. This one from the Seychelles while on vacation at the end of 1989 or very beginning of 1990. It is a long home movie, full of adventure. Even cutting it down, it…
VIDEO – MAURITIUS VACATION OFF THE COAST OF AFRICA
Yet another video from Africa. This one is an excerpt from our trip to Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, in late 1989. Once again the age and number of times it was transferred to different media formats over the last…
KRUGER PARK GRAMPA TRACKS AN ELEPHANT A VIDEO 1989
Before I jump into New Zealand, I wanted to post a few videos of our time in Africa. They were shot wherever we journeyed and are 30 years old. They started on original VHS tapes, and over the years were…
ANOTHER GUEST POST AND THIS TIME JERED HITS IT OUT!
Just when I thought I was safe after the coup attempt by the previous guest author (pair), another guest has popped up to join the literary world and dropped another jewel on me. Geezus will it never stop. Could it…
NEW!! NEW! THEME CHANGE, WHATDYA THINK?
I have just finished redesigning this blog. I must say I was very timid about stepping away from the first and only one I had ever built. And then into something new. It was way out of my comfort zone.…
WITH MEMORIES OF SOUTH AFRICA LOCKED IN MY BLOG WE NOW DEPART (ADIOS)
I have spent a long time reaching into the depths of this old mind, in order to set in print some of my remaining memories of South Africa. I have truly enjoyed digging out memories, some of which have been…
WOW A NEW POST BY A GUEST AUTHOR PAIR, HAS CLIMBED TO THE TOP
An amazing thing has happened! For the past three weeks I have been asking readers to add their own article(s) to this blog. At the outset, Deysi added a test article that immediately became very popular. Since that time there…
LOST IMAGES OF AFRICA FROM 1989-90 HAVE RESURFACED
Yesterday, I was searching thru an old box in the garage, when I came across a packet of unsent post cards that dated back to the 1980’s. There were quite a few and in some cases multiple copies of the…
