Tolga Detention Centre

Another chapter of my Australian Adventure that has to be closed is obviously the Tolga Detention Centre time which I served to the last day.

I have done my time, even more than I thought I would. 21 weeks for crimes I didn't commit. :) But what a hell of a time I had there is completely different story.



I have been talking to my fellow prisoners on many occasions, especially with who already escaped The Tolgatraz and we all agree that THE PEOPLE who live there make this place and turn this rather unpleasant situation into absolutely amazing experience.

Maybe the common enemy and fact that we all were in the same shit brought us even closer together. I don't know, but one thing is for sure we all made there a life long friendships and life long enemies at the same time :) And we had a lot of fun along the way!

So lets begin this little story... (at the end of the day I am describing here 4 months right now :)

One of the main relaxing activities was a short trip to near by Lake Eachem, where in crystal clear waters we were cooling down during those winter months here in Tablelands.

  Every so often we performed a tribal "Fig Three Dance" to please the local gods.

 Other times we plunged into local waterfalls, this particular is called Emerald Creek Falls. Me, Digger, Lewis and Conor under the falls.

 English boys and me just minutes before performing incredible dangerous stunt. "Vertical jump off the rocks to the water"

 Sometimes when there was too many people in the car, someone had to dress up as a goon box. This time it was me. (Conor you should use this idea the other day, you could avoid that ticket ;p)

Then there was a big rodeo in Mareeba, so as a professional adventure seekers or from lack of better things to do, we got the full bus of people and enjoyed the afternoon redneck style.

 Competition between NSW (blue shirts) and QLD (maroon shirts) - apparently it is one of the biggest events in the area.

 Here I am pretending to be a cowboy... as you see I have waaay to big head to be one of them, too much brains :P

 Here a very nice family photo as a proof that we have been there. Thanks Sarah for lending us the bus! and no, I didn't took all of them in it, and I don't know what Luke is doing on the roof...

 Then at some point Dave come up with idea... "hey Luke! hold on this bottle for a minute!"

 "Champagne Showers! :)" only two people seem to enjoy them, as usual Viv and Will.

In odd times we went to Lake Tinaroo, just 10 minutes away from our "Home" where we chill and played some competitive sports.

 Then we took some beers and chill at the deck...

 now.. who dropped beer to the water huh? :) a small spot the difference competition :)

 This is Canada style of relax

and every Friday we had an endless streams of party time happening in the lodge. After long week of hard work, we pretty much played hard as well :)

 played like a rrrrooooaaaarrrrr!

 Yeah yeah! i got the message, but I don't give a f*** :)

 Lots of screaming, singing, shouting and laughing!

 And then every first friday of the month we went out to the "club" BV - the Famous Baron Valley Hotel, It was sooo horrible that was good. :) Some people went there as much as 8 times!!! And still liked it!

 And when we party, we don't stop! :)

 Yeah!

During some more creative days, we were looking for a cure for boldness... it worked just temporarily :)

Then the time come to celebrate my birthday, and this little celebration actually turned into the longest birthday party ever! Me and my kids we went to Cairns for a weekend:)

it started at Gilligans the night before my day, then it was PJ's O'Briens then back to Gilligan's

And then miracle happened! I have received two dozen of cupcakes which we gave away to the whole hostel! (over 700 beds!!) and during that time we have decorated... decorations.. little improvement is always good :)

 Then we keep celebrating!

 Some of us had to hide from the security for being apparently too drunk to get in... well done stranger!!

 and party kept on going!

The very next morning we draged our demolished bodies out of the bed and went to the pier to board the Compas boat for a nice day on the reef. 

Whole Tolga Crew in numbers 20+ more :)

We had a lot of fun time :)

And just the fantastic four dive into the blue ocean!

And here I am:) its all good:) what an experience.

Here I teamed up with Scheisssaa! :)

Z Germans practicing underwater yoga... Or meditations :P

And here it is our star od the trip, eating from hands of Elly :)

Then boys had some fun time in the water :)

And this picture you probably know from somewhere :) one of the best pictures made on the reef. I have to say its all about good model isnt it? :)

Then later that night we went for more party time, Gilligans was our base and we stayed there the whole time. The very next day we had a time to relax at the lagoon. Playing and mocking around with the boys and girls.

The best looking group of people ever seen in Cairns :)

That supposed to be a synchronised dive... Well camer man fucked up :)

The boys and Rudi and Natasha on tour :)

Ahh thats sums up my awesome weekend in Cairns. :) relax time at the BBQ Place.

Papa Vince :)

Good food

We had some vegetarians amongst us so we had to cook some burgeralike things...

That was very exchausting weekend.

Then it came time to say good bye to our Italians, Marco, Vince, Nadia, Daniele, Nico,  and others.

Very influential characters in the Lodge.

Dave organized some fund rising to get something nice to our italians, but he got three rocks, a german coin, few cigarette buts and 5 cents...

Padre Vince with kids on the lap. Yeah Dutchie didnt even notice that they left...

The same evening with english lads and Pinke we went for a evening plunge in hot springs, Innot Hot Springs or something. It was a quite interesting expeirience, sitting in the boilong water.

Then the time came up to say good bye as well. Me Ciara and Sander were ready to leave the Tolga facilities. and as a very prominent personalities of the lodge we couldnt leave without a proper celebrations. Here we said good bye to Sarah.

Slowly we were moving towards the Tolga Pub... Me, Dutchie and Perry

Our lucky irish charm :)

Few pre-dringking games, well drinking games as a pre-drinking ... I mean drinking before... Ahh never mind:) we just found out, who couldn't handle the drink :)

Few good bye photos, with Conorski... with whom I live right now... so it was pointless :)

And Svenski... how are bananas mate?

z english boys

And then we had a cracking night at the Tolga pub, going absolutely mental!

Yeah, nipples were out..

And some girls just couldnt resist :)

Ahh another family photo, we had few of them alright:)

Tom, Elly, Natasha und Andy!!

Me, Pinkie and Dave!

Ahh some love is the air... Maybe lust and fetish is in the air:)

I would like to thank you all for strangling me to the chair! That meant a lot to me :) There was many more pictures taken that night but they were not suitable for publishing :)

Yes and then as a last event of the Tolga career was "the ultimate bakeoff". Between Man and a Woman. Between cheescake and chocolate cup cakes! Between first timer baker and a pro.

The panel was present all the time during the prep process to ensure that no one is cheating!

Me as an amatour baker I was feeling confident... At first...

Here was my competition, well ahead of me...

Striclty following the recipe I was slightly confused.. what do you mean half a cup? what cup? how big is the cup??? define cup!

But thanks to the support of my friends, i was catching up...

yeah just before the grand tasting and verdict we snapped a souvernire picture

Few close ups for the local newspaper and online, visual competition.

Then we were munching it with pleasure :) drinking Gold and eating delicious deserts :)

The result of the bake off was inconclusive and sparked a lot of vicious discussions and arguments. But as a tradition we plastered random things with cupcake papers :)

Then it was time to burn off some calories, on the very last game at Tolga Arena! Good games lads! It was a great pleasure to play with you!

Yeah the very next morning, me Sander and Ciara we drove away East to start a new adventure...

But this story is for another day.. sooo To Be Continued... :)