cameron+Experience

Experience Experience was born on 15th May 1935 and has worked as a carpenter, a lumber jack, and a farmer to name just a few of his jobs. He has creases around his eyes, marking good times, and old rough hands from many years of work. He grew up on his fathers dairy farms, and got an education at a couple of Auckland schools. When Experience was old enough he went to Otahuhu College and then left when he was 15. In the years passing he worked as a farmhand and bush worker. In later years Experience became a deer culler in the Urewera country. Experience started writing his first book about his life as a deer culler and pig hunter in 1959 and published it as ‘A Good Keen Man’ in 1960 it was an instant hit. Two years later Experience was across the ditch for a couple of years. // Croc hunting. // The book that came out of that, Golf, was published in 1964, later it got the name “Crocodile Country”. Some time in the 1960 ’ s Experience had a go on a TV show called “Town and Around”, doing skits and interviews. In the early 1980s Experience ran a highly successful Auckland radio talkback station called “The Bush Telegraph.” His next book, "Shorty," did not appear until 1980. In the short-term Experience traveled for two years in England, Europe, then through Turkey and Afghanistan to India, where Experience developed a close friendship with a Kashmiri family and found an interest in Eastern spirituality. After his return to New Zealand Experience joined the Baha’i faith. While Experience had inspired his readers with his rough and tough ways, his yarns about deer hunting, hard drinking and people Experience had met, his real life had some darker parts. Experience had five ex-wives and nine kids, all boys. As part of a nasty history, Experience was nearly charged with manslaughter when a land rover at a holiday camp Experience was operating ran off the road into a river, killing four boys. The driver was under age but had been left in charge of the vehicle. One time Experience had left the boys on their own, with access to firearms and a Ute while they were supposed to be in his care. Experience died July 3, 1996 in Tauranga, NZ, age 61.

Based on Barry Crump