Life Before The Crocodile Hunter
Tony Frisby and Julie Gatehouse
“A great mate is one of those things most Aussie blokes take for granted – until he’s not there.”
I don’t quite know how it all happened. One moment I was laughing with my teenage surfing buddy Stevo as he got hammered by the suckiest waves ever at Currimundi on the Sunshine Coast, the next I was grinning next to him in my best man’s suit at his wedding in Oregon.
Stevo was my best mate, we used to sink beers, climb trees and generally act like silly buggers. Then our friendship deepened and we trusted each other with our lives catching wild crocs in Outback Queensland – but we still sank Bundy Rum chasers around the campfire afterwards.
I wrote this book to offer fresh insight into the bloke, the surfie, the footy player, the reptile lover, the life of the party, the hard worker, the mate. My mate. More Crocodile Whisperer than the Crocodile Hunter,
Stevo was into conservation long before he became the celebrity. I don’t quite know how it all happened, but it was a bloody wild ride.
My Mate Steve Irwin is a tribute to a friend, it’s a boy’s own adventure story and a heartfelt memoir.
- This is the Steve Irwin story from a new perspective: that of his best mate and best man, Tony Frisby.
- It is a Boys Own Adventure story of catching crocs, giant lizards and other dangerous creatures in outback Queensland.
- Gives a never before heard of Steve Irwin, the larrikin, the partygoer, the surfer, the indestructible adventurer who grew up on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
- Traces Steve Irwin’s wild ride from his teenage years to Australia Zoo.
Tony Frisby was one of the first crocodile handling staff at the Irwins’ Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park (Australia Zoo). He and Steve developed the shows and croc displays that make the zoo an internationally famous attraction. He is now a Ranger with Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service based on Yeppoon. Julie Gatehouse is a Sunshine Coast-based newspaper editor and journalist. She worked with Tony to write this book.
Details: ISBN 9781920681487 Longueville Media PB $39.99 March 2010
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