Spud's brother Jimbo, and latest on mystery man Carslemane

I say!

Brian Wilson sent me the following snap. It's one of Spud's brother Jimbo. Regular readers of this blog may remember that I met up with him last year, when I visited Dear Old Blighty to attend Duneditin 2008.


Jimbo pitched up on Brian's doorstep once again, a couple of weeks ago. My goodness - he gets around. In the snap above he looks rather shell-shocked and perplexed, but that was probably after Brian had played him three hours non-stop vary rare Beach Boys music.

Anyway, Brian emailed me to say that Jimbo told him he had a theory about Carslemane. His theory is this:

To recap - Jimbo's friends Caro and Jacko had last left Carslemane, at his request, by the roadside in the outback, and in their own words, he was "Going strong towards the Top End".

Jimbo's theory is that shortly afterwards, Carslemane was mugged and drugged, and essentially left for dead, in a hole in the outback. After about 70 days of living off little more than frogs and cockroaches, and having lost a great deal of weight, someone called Ricky Megee eventually found him at an almost dried up waterhole/dam, somewhere near Wallamunga Tank.

Here's the interesting thing - Megee then wrote a book about the whole story, which has since been published under the title "Left for dead in the Outback", but in the book he substituted himself for Carslemane, in order to protect the innocent.

Here's a photo taken from that book:


My goodness - it's a bit hard to tell with all that weight loss, but I could swear that that is Carslemane!

Interesting theory, especially as there was a lot of talk about a 'mystery man' being found in the desert (you'll have to scroll down that page a bit to read the correct item), and mystery man is certainly an apt description of Carslemane.

MM III