Dave, those hooks you were talking about I was told go about 90 to 100
meters (all natural hooks). He had some other hooks that were
absolutely beautiful (5 of them cut out of the same root). They were
on the other wall. I will post a picture of them. Dave I went by
myself to Australia. Stayed in backpacker hostels. Taught aboriginal
kids how to throw boomerangs while in Arnhemland. That area of
Australia didn't utilize boomerangs. It is recognized as the
birthplace of the didgeridoo or yirdaki as it is called by the Yolgnu
people. Camped for a week with Aboriginals and made didgeridoos along
with trying to learn thier style of play which is called "Gunbork".
Met a lot of interesting people and had a ball for a month. After
returning home I dreamt about Australia every night for 2 solid weeks.
Nita said that I really hadn't come home yet even tho I was their
physicallly. I picked up a spear thrower,shield,natural elbow
returning boomerang,a kangaroo hide,built a didgeridoo and bought one.
Sent home about 5 boxes of stuff including a number of books about
aboriginal Australia. Did a lot of hiking,lost a few pounds,ate some
great food and packed as much in my head as I could. This January I am
putting a display in the Lake Jackson library for the month and on the
20 of January will be utilizing their conference room to give a talk
about my trip. It is entitled "Trapped in Arnhemland". And that's a
whole nother story.

Bob

--- In BoomerangPhotos@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Hughes"
<dlhughes001@...> wrote:
>
> Boy, Bob, I wish I'da known you were going over there. See
> those 'hook' booms behind the guy's left shoulder in the photo of
the
> boom shop? I almost bought one of those and had it shipped here, but
> it would have cost quite a bit. I coulda had you snag me one when
you
> were there, dadgum! ;^)
>
> Nice photos, interesting. Wish I coulda gone with y'all!
>
> Dave Hughes
>