Cool Pics Thread!

[K1]

Atlantis submarine ride: Kailua-Kona, HI
It was cool seeing the cruise ship pull in and let the passengers off for a day trip on the island.

 

[K1]

Koala Sanctuary: Melbourne, AU
Awesome animals...Sleep, eat and fuck, that's it haha!

 

[K1]

Ayers Rock, Kings Canyon and Wolfe Creek: Alice Springs, AU

 

[K1]

That's it for me guys...We have some variety in here now, so let's see what you got

 

[alfresco]

That's it for me guys...We have some variety in here now, so let's see what you got

I spent a few months traveling around Australia. Landed in Alice Springs, out to Ayer’s Rock (when it was still called that) then up to Darwin with stops along the way, out to Kakadu, over to Cains, then down the coast to Sidney.

All my fotos are Kodachrome slides, most have not been digitized , I will see what I can scrape up.

 

[K1]

I spent a few months traveling around Australia. Landed in Alice Springs, out to Ayer’s Rock (when it was still called that) then up to Darwin with stops along the way, out to Kakadu, over to Cains, then down the coast to Sidney.

All my fotos are Kodachrome slides, most have not been digitized , I will see what I can scrape up.

I went up from Melb to Sydney (caught some nasty ass flu shit there that had my wife bedridden for 3 months when I got home and passed it to her lol)...From there to Darwin and down through Alice Springs, back into Melb. And then over to Perth last year to see Big A and feed some more kangaroos and pet stingrays lol.

Would have loved to gone through Alice Springs with your ride man...Would be awesome to have an SUV going through that desert!

 

[maxmusle1]

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I went to a place that had huge snakes, poisonous snakes of all kinds, even some milkings. And huge crocs, many species. Very impressive. I thought it was worth going to.

The ‘Top End’ (Darwin, Kakadu National Park) is dope.

As are cats.

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I watched a story online about these dudes who bought a Lion from Harrods mall(messed up). But they let it go into the wild after raising it , then the owner went back out years later and the fully grown lion came out with it’s family and jumped up and starting hugging and licking him .
It was an amazing video on YouTube . Cheetahs are bad ass , long tail helps them balance at high speeds. I want to hit Africa , I’ve only never twice to S. Africa and I was young , I remember eating all the meats at the Reserve and water Buffalo was most like our beef . Oh, the casino too, of course my papa loves to gamble

Max

 

[K1]

I remember eating all the meats at the Reserve and water Buffalo was most like our beef .

Max

I had a convo with a couple people at an airport last year about the different meats I've tried around the world...I know there are a few things I left off but you get the point lol (I didn't separate between baby/adult, and haven't tried human yet bahaha):

Alligator
Bison
Buffalo
Chicken
Cow
Crocodile
Deer
Duck
Emu
Goat
Goose
Kangaroo
Lamb
Lion
Ostrich
Pig
Rabbit
Turkey
*Several different types of fishes, etc.

It's the only thing I'm truly a hypocrite about and unlike most I actually admit being a hypocrite...If the world came to an end and we had to hunt for our food, people on my social page would end up on the list before any one of those animals up there lol. I'd have a farm and be hunting people and trying to save every stray animal I saw...Which is sad because every animal I save ends up aggravating the fuck outta me the same as most humans

Someone would be skinning the ones I brought back and getting them ready to cook...I'd be out there wrestling a gator, bitching at him to get in the fucking pond that took 6 weeks for me to fucking dig

 

[alfresco]

I had a convo with a couple people at an airport last year about the different meats I've tried around the world...I know there are a few things I left off but you get the point lol (I didn't separate between baby/adult, and haven't tried human yet bahaha):

Alligator
Bison
Buffalo
Chicken
Cow
Crocodile
Deer
Duck
Emu
Goat
Goose
Kangaroo
Lamb
Lion
Ostrich
Pig
Rabbit
Turkey
*Several different types of fishes, etc.

It's the only thing I'm truly a hypocrite about and unlike most I actually admit being a hypocrite...If the world came to an end and we had to hunt for our food, people on my social page would end up on the list before any one of those animals up there lol. I'd have a farm and be hunting people and trying to save every stray animal I saw...Which is sad because every animal I save ends up aggravating the fuck outta me the same as most humans

Someone would be skinning the ones I brought back and getting them ready to cook...I'd be out there wrestling a gator, bitching at him to get in the fucking pond that took 6 weeks for me to fucking dig

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The most exotic 'food' I have eaten is King Cobra. Ran over one on the way
back to our bush camp on the Athi River Plains. Stopped. Picked it up.
Skinned it in camp. Barbequed it. Tasted like shoe leather. Got a foto of
it being skinned by a former SAS guy, hired to keep us alive. Will try and
find.

 

[alfresco]

To the top of Mt. Roraima, 7 days out and back. Then off to Angel Falls.
To the base and back, 7 days.

Learned about Mt. Roraima from a March 1980 Geo Magazine (German)
article and about Angel Falls from an old Canadian Club advertisements.
Michael Nichols (Nat Geo photog) was supposed to go back (he had done
the first winter ascent) on my trip to Mt. Roraima but bailed at the last
minute. And sadly Rudy Truffino had passed away but his wife guided us
up to the base of Angel Falls.

Always a day late and dollar short. Story of my life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Falls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Roraima

 

[maxmusle1]

I had a convo with a couple people at an airport last year about the different meats I've tried around the world...I know there are a few things I left off but you get the point lol (I didn't separate between baby/adult, and haven't tried human yet bahaha):

Alligator
Bison
Buffalo
Chicken
Cow
Crocodile
Deer
Duck
Emu
Goat
Goose
Kangaroo
Lamb
Lion
Ostrich
Pig
Rabbit
Turkey
*Several different types of fishes, etc.

It's the only thing I'm truly a hypocrite about and unlike most I actually admit being a hypocrite...If the world came to an end and we had to hunt for our food, people on my social page would end up on the list before any one of those animals up there lol. I'd have a farm and be hunting people and trying to save every stray animal I saw...Which is sad because every animal I save ends up aggravating the fuck outta me the same as most humans

Someone would be skinning the ones I brought back and getting them ready to cook...I'd be out there wrestling a gator, bitching at him to get in the fucking pond that took 6 weeks for me to fucking dig

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Lmao! You definitely went to S. Africa . My older sister ate Lion there. I had never seen it on any menu except there. You got me beat …I have not has crocodile ! I’ve had plenty of gator tail (or fried bites w Ranch) lol. I love duck , venison, elk, any decent game (dove breasts wrapped in Bacon. I’ve had rattlesnake (not great). Emu and ostrich are super lean (still eating Ostrim sticks every now and then) . They have a hot dog joint in Chicago that serves a ton of crazy meats too. Elk is my absolute favorite , Venison & Bison . Damn im hungry again . I’ve definitely eaten a few things I regret for sure. I need some venison and other meats. My cousins and friends usually send me some but, I guess I just forgot to mention it…with prices at the store (some ground vensison can be as cheap as lean beef). Although they may have raised the price on that. I noticed lamb was cheap ; pork was cheap, everything else went up ! Love that you have eaten all those . Peking Duck for Christmas

Max

 

[Muay Thai]

To the top of Mt. Roraima, 7 days out and back. Then off to Angel Falls.
To the base and back, 7 days.

Learned about Mt. Roraima from a March 1980 Geo Magazine (German)
article and about Angel Falls from an old Canadian Club advertisements.
Michael Nichols (Nat Geo photog) was supposed to go back (he had done
the first winter ascent) on my trip to Mt. Roraima but bailed at the last
minute. And sadly Rudy Truffino had passed away but his wife guided us
up to the base of Angel Falls.

Always a day late and dollar short. Story of my life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Falls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Roraima

a wise soul named @Bio once told me "there is a book in you", I had NEVER heard that terminology before but it fascinated me.

you certainly fall under this category brother, i have always admired the way you carry yourself and your experiences and your posts for probably 10 years now. Just wanted to send you some love and light and respect!

 

[Virtuous]

Apologies for the potato photo quality, I took these a while ago with a less than excellent dive camera. So cool to be around something like this. We chummed a reef to catch these (turtle added just because I thought it was neat)

 

[K1]

The most exotic 'food' I have eaten is King Cobra. Ran over one on the way
back to our bush camp on the Athi River Plains. Stopped. Picked it up.
Skinned it in camp. Barbequed it. Tasted like shoe leather. Got a foto of
it being skinned by a former SAS guy, hired to keep us alive. Will try and
find.

Now that's cool shit...I want to see a Cobra but being able to do that out in the bush would be awesome!

 

[K1]

To the top of Mt. Roraima, 7 days out and back. Then off to Angel Falls.
To the base and back, 7 days.

Learned about Mt. Roraima from a March 1980 Geo Magazine (German)
article and about Angel Falls from an old Canadian Club advertisements.
Michael Nichols (Nat Geo photog) was supposed to go back (he had done
the first winter ascent) on my trip to Mt. Roraima but bailed at the last
minute. And sadly Rudy Truffino had passed away but his wife guided us
up to the base of Angel Falls.

Always a day late and dollar short. Story of my life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Falls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Roraima

Badass man!

 

[K1]

Lmao! You definitely went to S. Africa . My older sister ate Lion there. I had never seen it on any menu except there. You got me beat …I have not has crocodile ! I’ve had plenty of gator tail (or fried bites w Ranch) lol. I love duck , venison, elk, any decent game (dove breasts wrapped in Bacon. I’ve had rattlesnake (not great). Emu and ostrich are super lean (still eating Ostrim sticks every now and then) . They have a hot dog joint in Chicago that serves a ton of crazy meats too. Elk is my absolute favorite , Venison & Bison . Damn im hungry again . I’ve definitely eaten a few things I regret for sure. I need some venison and other meats. My cousins and friends usually send me some but, I guess I just forgot to mention it…with prices at the store (some ground vensison can be as cheap as lean beef). Although they may have raised the price on that. I noticed lamb was cheap ; pork was cheap, everything else went up ! Love that you have eaten all those . Peking Duck for Christmas

Max

Yeah, it's cool experiencing these different things...Good conversations pieces bahaha!

But I'm still an Italian or Chick Parmesan sub/grinder guy at heart

 

[K1]

Apologies for the potato photo quality, I took these a while ago with a less than excellent dive camera. So cool to be around something like this. We chummed a reef to catch these (turtle added just because I thought it was neat)

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Cool shit man...I love sharks! Wanted to see Great Whites in the Neptunes but had to settle for Bronzed Whalers in Cape Town.

Maybe one day I'll end up getting up close with the GW's?!

 

[Muay Thai]

I have been on probation with the law back and forth since I was 18 in some way form or another, so INTL travel has been difficult. Anytime I went to Mexico in between then I ended up in JAIL (in Mexico too).. I am living vicariously through all of your travels. trust me when I tell you in my mind i go there and explore those realms. but nothing beats actually being there, i am off probation FINALLY around the holidays next year. The first fucking thing i am doing is GTFO America. I admire all of you, adventurers. All of you Merriwether Lewis and Clark, Davey Crocket, Kit Carson, type individuals, my hat goes off to you

“IN THE DEPTHS of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” albert camos

this is my m.o until im off probation

I have been to Germany and Switzerland as a youth and it BLEW my mind. It opened up a pandora's box of culture and became a panacea for me believe it or not, a mindstate, a meditation I could visit mentally while incarcerated. astral MAWWFIA TIPS

this entire messageboard has been a panacea for me during dark times..... please keep this content coming! it hits home because we are are bodybuilders

I am an aficionado when it comes to culture and history, but its all from studies... thank you to everyone posting who brings me LIFE, these pictures put color in my world.

 

[maxmusle1]

Yeah, it's cool experiencing these different things...Good conversations pieces bahaha!

But I'm still an Italian or Chick Parmesan sub/grinder guy at heart

Omg! Don’t say that ! I can eat chicken or veal cutlets/Parmesan like a Labrador . I don’t have that “get full” leptin signal (especially w gh or peptides). A “Grinder” ! That is what my mom calls them . In fact, last time I went to to this Old Pizzeria & Brewery and they had a “ Pizza Grinder” heated in the Pizza oven ….my lord ! I ate another one after the first and took another back to my hotel . It had Provolone, Mozzarella, even Cheddar with incredible bread with all the meats ;no vegetables) just meats and cheese and dark pepperoni (with the oil inside) . I almost fell asleep on the Uber back . lol

You have good taste and if your like me , constantly cooking or griling out .

Max

 

[alfresco]

Did this ‘trip’ in 1987 when it was possible to do so.

The Pan-American Highway runs from Alaska to the top of South America,
save for a gap, the Darién Gap, in between. No roads through there to anywhere.
Air or water transpo only. Can’t drive. Don’t know where it picks up again
in Columbia. Currently, Panama and Columbia does not recognize overland
travel as a valid means of entry. If you are caught here without an entry
stamp, good fucking luck.)

Drive to the roads end in Yaviza, Panama. Hire boats and guides and travel by
water to Boca de Cupe where you get passport exit stamped. (Good luck
between here and Turbo, Columbia as you are now, officially ‘nationless’.)
Hire smaller boats and travel upriver until too shallow to navigate. This takes
about 3 days. Spend overnight at Indian village. Then you start walking for
four days, until you reach river big enough to provide navigation via the
Rio Atrato to Los Katíos National Park where we spent a few days. Then hire
another boat to take you across Golfo de Urabá to the town of Turbo, Columbia,
which by the way makes the Darien Gap look like Disneyland. The worst place
I have ever been in my life. Get passport stamped here. Hired three Russian
4wd vehicles (which always broke down) to take us to a town big enough to be
visited by a scheduled bus. From there travel to Cartagena which is beautiful.
From there a bus to Barranquilla, Colombia and to the airport and on to Miami, FL.
(Rented a car here and drove up the Lake Helen to visit Arthur Jones and Casey
at the Nautilus facility.)

Notes:

Upon being dropped of where the walking begins, we lunched on the river shore.
When we packed up to start walking, I did a quick check to see if I left anything
behind. It was then that I saw that we had been walking around a fer-de-lance
snake while lunching on the gravel bar, the deadliest snake in South America.
(I took a picture of it and it was confirmed by Arthur.) Had it bitten anybody,
despite us all walking around it. Death was a certainty.

Saw a single man walking through the jungle with nothing more than a black briefcase. WTF?

Met Loren Upton. He was attempting to drive his jeep, which is really winching,
hrough the gap. I have a photo of his abandoned vehicle on a gravel bar where he
left it. I sent him a copy of it when I got home. Don’t know if he ever finished.

Spent a safe night at a military outpost near the Panama / Columbia border.
We took two handles of whiskey to let us do so.

Water was only a problem for one long day. The guide would not let anybody leave
Yaviza without the capacity to carry about 10 liters of water.

Slept under mosquito netting. Had to take anti-histamines at night just to sleep
because of all the bug bites.

Lost 30 lbs. 20 lbs, 20lbs I did not have to lose.

This was the last year commercially available trips were available through the
Darien Gap. And only available for two months of the year. Other times, the rivers
are too high making passage impossible.

Officer in Tubo, stamping our passports, showing us a handful passports of
others less fortunate in the jail behind him, all drug smugglers.

Fleeing our motel room after she decided to double our costs to stay the night.
When she picked up a shotgun we spread out, met back at the plaza where we
rented the vehicles. Crazy town. Like the wild fucking west. Instead of riding horses,
they were driving chopped top pick-ups. Everybody seemed to be packing heat.
Open carry. I remember being in a dirt flood bar and saw a man swinging this young
woman (wife, girlfriend, hooker?) around by her hair, knocking chairs and tables over.
She had a long pony tail that he was holding on to and she was doing the same so
he would not pull the hair out her head. I jumped up, was going to go help her, half
the bar jumped in to restrain me. Not my business was told. Don’t be a hero.
Young and dumb I was.

We all got sicker than a dog eating at a Chinese place across from where we were staying.
We filled up all the toilets, could not flush them, they turn off the water at night. WTF.
I got up early and had to push start my taxi (57 Chev.) out front and told him to take me
to the airport before I shit all over his cab.

Could go on and on but got to move on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darién_Gap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boca_de_Cupe

Turbo, Colombia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I think the dangers are overrated in the Darien but this is what wiki has to say about it.

By land . . .

It is possible to hike from Colombia to Panama, or vice versa, but the conditions are very
difficult and often underestimated by those setting out on this trip. It is one of the rainiest
and most dangerous places on the planet, a lawless, unpoliced region, full of drug smugglers
and sometimes political rebels. Exact figures are not kept, but many migrants die on this trip.

The hiking trail is not easy, ascending abruptly over a mountain, and the four days of hiking
are a challenge even for a person in good physical shape with good shoes. Most migrants
are in mediocre physical shape or worse, and without equipment for hiking and camping.
Women carrying babies, or pregnant women, are not unusual, the former having been noted
by a UNICEF worker during a two-day trip in recent years as of 2021. Three migrant women
bore babies in the Darién between 2013 and 2021, with no medical help or supplies available.

The Darién Gap is one of the rainiest places on the planet. The rainfall produces flash floods
that can carry sleepers to their deaths. One must cross several rivers where there are neither
bridges nor boats. No services of any kind are available; one must carry food, a tent and water
purification materials sufficient for a hike of several days. Remains of deceased migrants are
often encountered. They die because they are too exhausted to continue, or have a problem
(such as blisters) that require treatment. There is no medical help available at all and no way
to evacuate someone ill, injured, or simply exhausted. A broken leg is usually fatal. Insects
are heavy and there is no shortage of snakes and carnivorous mammals. Numerous migrants
report that they were robbed; women may be raped. There is no police presence and no cell
phone signal.

In Capurganá, Colombia, and Yaviza, Panama, there is no shortage of young men who offer,
for a fee, to serve as guides and to provide "protection". There is no easy way to determine
if those who offer these services are knowledgeable and trustworthy, or criminals looking for victims.

Currently, Panama and Columbia do not recognize overland (travel by land) as a valid means of
travel. If you are caught without an entry stamp, good fucking luck.

Fotos:

Map for reference.

Mosquito netting we slept under.

Once of the river were traveled on. Rio Atrato?

At the Panama Columbia border. Me in the middle. On the left, our doctor. On the right my best mate
(from Ascot, England but don't hold that against him). There was a couple on their honeymoon. She later
got bit by a poisonous snake on the Inca Trail in Peru. had to air-vacked home to the UK.

Cartagena market.

Casey Viator. Lake Helen, FL.