Buckshot Bear Posted March 10 Author Posted March 10 Sam Lovell AM, (1933 -2025) was a stockman, boundary rider, and is regarded as the 'father' of Aboriginal tourism in Western Australia. Sam, affectionately known as ‘Mr Kimberley’, was born in 1933 at Calwynyadah Station in the Kimberley, where his father Jack was part owner. At the age of four, Sam was taken to live on Mulla Bulla Station near Halls Creek. Sadly, he never saw his parents again. Sam became a boundary rider and stockman and worked on cattle stations all along the Gibb River Road. At age nineteen, Sam was the head stockman at Glenroy Station. He never got any wages, only boots and hats at the start of the season, tucker, clothes, tobacco, soap and blankets. He found his chance in 1950, when he was sent to accompany a man droving cattle from Lansdowne Station near Halls Creek to Glenroy Station, north of Fitzroy Crossing. "We were supposed to fly back, me and another two blokes, back to Moola Bulla, because we had no say in whatever the matter was, we were only loaned to go droving. "And the boss at Glenroy said to me, 'You want a job?' "I said, 'Oh, I wouldn't mind' but I said, 'I've got no say in the matter'. "He rang the superintendent, and they said, 'If they want a job, give them a job'. And that was out of Moola Bulla." From then on, Mr Lovell said, he spent over a decade living the tough life of a stockman, working extraordinarily long hours on horseback and sustaining multiple injuries, and was also finally paid for his work. He bought a camera, a box brownie, and became one of the few people in the Kimberley to take photographs of life on the land in that period. It was a final injury in 1962, when a horse bucked and he felt his back snap, that led to a two-month stay in Royal Perth Hospital and ended of his career as a stockman. "The bloody old manager thought I was putting it on," he recalled. "He wouldn't send me to the hospital. Anyway, after three days living on aspirins, I had to ride on the back of a semi-trailer, 70 miles [112km] to hospital. "The doctor went berserk. "Anyway, they finished up sending me here to Royal Perth." From horseback to truck It was after this that Mr Lovell changed careers, buying a truck, carting timber for the bakery ovens and working for Main Roads for 20 years, which provided the inspiration for his next career move. "I used to take people out and show them these little paintings on the side of the road, springs, gorges, caves, you name it. "I used to take them when we had days off, all the Main Roads workers. "And these people used to say — 'You want to start a tour?'" When Main Roads gave him long service leave, Mr Lovell and his wife Rosita drove around Australia. "I had a look at all the tourism things around the place, what they were doing and [thought], 'I can do that'. "So I got back to Derby and I said to the shire president what I wanted to do. He said, 'I'll help you.'" 'On my tour, they learned everything' Sam's deep knowledge of the country served him well later in life when he created Kimberley Safari Tours in 1981 with his wife Rosita, where he shared his love of the Australian outback. Kimberley Safari was born in 1981 with a 10-seater truck, starting off with day tours and then expanding into camping trips and horseback adventures. Sam and Rosita Lovell were able to take tourists all over, using his deep knowledge of the country to share places and stories unknown to other tour operators. "I knew everything there and the people in it," he said. "When I decided to go into tourism, I drove around all the stations, saw all the managers, all the owners and told them what I wanted to do. "'Go for it, you're right, you don't need anything,' they said. "And all the community, I went and talked to them. I know I'm a lucky one, you know. Everything sort of fell into place pretty good." That knowledge the elders gave him on Moola Bulla, combined with his decades spent on stations in the Kimberley, gave him a wealth of information to share. "When they came on my tour, they learned everything," Mr Lovell said. "From a small lizard to the little grasshopper, everything. "They learned European history and Aboriginal history. "One night I'd sit down and talk about the history of the first people who bought stations up there, you know, and then next night I'd talk about the cultural things from each tribe." One thing he's especially proud of is that in 11 years, the business never had an accident. While he has long since retired, Mr Lovell went on to mentor other Indigenous tourism operators and was awarded an OAM in 2003 for his services setting up Aboriginal tourism in the Kimberley. In 2003, Mr Lovell was recognised as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his services as a mentor to Aboriginal groups and communities in the Kimberley region in developing tourism ventures. 3 1 Quote
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Alpo Posted March 13 Posted March 13 7 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: I have a question about the chicken. It appears to me to say "seasoned and stupped". My first thought when I read it was "schtupped", which is certainly something I would not want to eat. Then I decided I was misreading and it says stuffed, but I blew the picture up as big as I could and it sure looks like those are two Ps, not two Fs. So does stupped mean something in Aussie? Quote
Eyesa Horg Posted March 13 Posted March 13 1 hour ago, Alpo said: I have a question about the chicken. It appears to me to say "seasoned and stupped". My first thought when I read it was "schtupped", which is certainly something I would not want to eat. Then I decided I was misreading and it says stuffed, but I blew the picture up as big as I could and it sure looks like those are two Ps, not two Fs. So does stupped mean something in Aussie? AI's answer: Stupped" appears to be a common misspelling of stuffed, frequently used in online recipe titles to describe dishes filled with ingredients (e.g., "stupped plantain," "stupped grape leaves," "stupped mushroom"). It is not a standard English word, but rather a phonetic variation found in cooking videos and blogs. Quote
Alpo Posted March 13 Posted March 13 Over on the left side of that bag it says "seasoned and stuffed", in lowercase, and it obviously says stuffed because ff don't look nothing like pp. But up top by the handle is what I was looking at, and those words are all uppercase. And they still look like PP to me. Quote
Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L Posted March 13 Posted March 13 31 minutes ago, Alpo said: Over on the left side of that bag it says "seasoned and stuffed", in lowercase, and it obviously says stuffed because ff don't look nothing like pp. But up top by the handle is what I was looking at, and those words are all uppercase. And they still look like PP to me. Yes it shows as PP 1 Quote
Eyesa Horg Posted March 13 Posted March 13 43 minutes ago, Alpo said: Over on the left side of that bag it says "seasoned and stuffed", in lowercase, and it obviously says stuffed because ff don't look nothing like pp. But up top by the handle is what I was looking at, and those words are all uppercase. And they still look like PP to me. What's the word to the right of stuffed in that lower left side? 1 Quote
Alpo Posted March 13 Posted March 13 Good question. I assumed it was "seasoned", but it appears to be S O S M C E D. You have to remember, though. They talk funny down there. They've got weird words. 1 Quote
Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life Posted March 13 Posted March 13 12 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: Apparently a friend of mine is part frog, cause that happens to him a lot when he goes bar hopping!! LOL Regards Gateway Kid 2 Quote
Alpo Posted March 13 Posted March 13 1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said: Well it is "approved Orken", so there's that! 18 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: It's good for Mork's home planet? 2 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted March 13 Posted March 13 5 hours ago, Alpo said: I have a question about the chicken. It appears to me to say "seasoned and stupped". My first thought when I read it was "schtupped", which is certainly something I would not want to eat. Then I decided I was misreading and it says stuffed, but I blew the picture up as big as I could and it sure looks like those are two Ps, not two Fs. So does stupped mean something in Aussie? ...... it's just a marketing trick; "get Alpo to talk about it to get people to wonder about it and buy it to find out for themselves" ....... thus more sales. 1 3 Quote
John Kloehr Posted March 13 Posted March 13 22 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: ...... it's just a marketing trick; "get Alpo to talk about it to get people to wonder about it and buy it to find out for themselves" ....... thus more sales. So did @Alpo ask a question about Vegemite? 2 Quote
Alpo Posted March 13 Posted March 13 1 hour ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: ...... it's just a marketing trick; "get Alpo to talk about it to get people to wonder about it and buy it to find out for themselves" ....... thus more sales. Well then, by damn, I want a commission! 2 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted March 13 Author Posted March 13 9 hours ago, Alpo said: I have a question about the chicken. It appears to me to say "seasoned and stupped". My first thought when I read it was "schtupped", which is certainly something I would not want to eat. Then I decided I was misreading and it says stuffed, but I blew the picture up as big as I could and it sure looks like those are two Ps, not two Fs. So does stupped mean something in Aussie? I think there's some AI going on there, like here - 1 1 Quote
Rip Snorter Posted March 13 Posted March 13 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: When I was VFD I was out on a wildland fire and walked across a dry creek, even jumped up and down to see if it was passable. Truck followed, went in to the frame. Took a big John Deere tractor to pull it out. The driver grew up here and was as surprised as I was. Edited March 13 by Rip Snorter Typo 3 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted March 14 Posted March 14 ^^^^^^^^^ ...... mighta been'd ok if'n you hadn't loosened it up first 1 2 Quote
Alpo Posted March 14 Posted March 14 15 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: They need to clean the taps. Look at all that crud in the head on that beer. 2 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted March 15 Author Posted March 15 47 minutes ago, Alpo said: They need to clean the taps. Look at all that crud in the head on that beer. Out of interest, are the beer taps in the USA ice encrusted? We serve our beer ICE cold here. P.s Notice NO Fosters. 2 1 Quote
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