Steve Forrest, the Port Manager, came to visit today. Steve was the man that built the trailers for tom and i for the bike journey, and he has some cracking stories to tell. One of them he told me this afternoon, regarding the origins of mitchys barra bar.
Apparently the place was started by a local dude called Honest John (the coiner of the nickname apparently had his tongue firmly in his cheek when this name was conceived), who still resides in wyndham and can be heard, along with steve forrest, in an interview for abc regional radio right here.
Now honest john used to own the whole joint, which included pixies shop next door, where he used to try and sell clothes. He also spent the majority of his time stoned and pissed, so trying to run two business' would have been difficult, let alone a third illegal one of trying to flog dope from out the back of his shack. He'd grow and sell weed out the back and thus had a steady stream of oddballs coming and staying with him at various stages.
One of these apparent blow ins was a woman who was staying with him, getting on the piss and blazing away and having a good old time, when the local police raided the joint, looking for dope. But as luck would have it for john, the woman who was there with him was a federal polic officer, who flipped out her badge, overruled the local boys, and got them to bugger off back to the station so that she and john could keep raging. As told by steve forrest, more investigation pending, hopeful expansion forthcoming.
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