Wally s smile threatened to cut his head in two. I felt like in a dream, it was unreal. Here I was far out in the Australian bush where few tourists set foot, meeting real Aboriginal people showing me real Dreamtime stories. I did not know what to ask. I felt like buying the painting.
Scoundrels travel out to Aboriginal communities and buy paintings for less than they are worth.
Aborigines do not haggle. It is easy for the ruthless to get a dirt-cheap bargain. Meanwhile, Nigel, always the energetic guide, arranged a visit to the nearby Giles Meteorological Station. A man called Len Beadell built many of the roads in Central Australia in the 1950s and '60s. A main driving force for this project was the British nuclear bomb tests that were performed in the central deserts.