World wide adventures for often less than a £5 a day. Friendly locals, fishing, trapping, camping out for sometimes weeks or months on end in jungles, deserts, beaches, volcanoes and urban hellholes on a budget even the audience could afford! In the past 10 years I’ve been travelling Australia, Canada, the States, New Zealand, Fiji, the Canaries, sailed the Atlantic, and more recently, 5 weeks camping on the local east coast, Barbados. No rooms, or campsites, entirely self-sufficient in my skinny tent. On average, that’s about 1 night’s rental in 80 truly “wild” camping!
Dawn in the Sahara…just a blip of flash – not a studio shot!!
“Hektor krome’s lecture was the most exciting I ever heard…he explained it like an innocent in court!”
(where does that come from?!) Luke Bowen, aged 10! Port Regis
Fantasia festival. Marakesh Morocco. Pre tourist.There you go!..this proves the World’s not flat!
Shipwreck, Cape Verde, hitching and crewing to Bahia on a classic ketch built for King Oscar ll of Sweden. Monster storm, no insurance, total loss, except what I managed to get ashore, in the night, with my rucksack on my back, using my rod as a wading staff, packed and ready to go up the Amazon. ;-[
Another night in Paradise! Fiji.Selfie. Sun up in the Sahara,alone. An hour later 3 air-conditioned buses full of German tourists turned up who avoided me thinking I might be a local looking for baksheesh!Mary Poppins flies over the Blue Mosque, Istanbul.
“Going to a Hektor Krome lecture is like beating Port Regis at rugby!”
Martin Harris, HM Sandroyd
“Biggest killer in the photo?” I took this photo of my captain of 3 winters sportsfishing winters in the Florida Keys. Many excited suggestions from the audience. “The shark?” no! “The hammerhead?”calls out the more knowledgeable no! “The man?” definitely more agreement on this one from the ecowise. No! Then some ashen faced member, having endured the pernicious habit of the fond parent, calls out “the cigarette?” Aha! The penny drops and they all concur …leaving some of the staff feeling their pockets and longing for breaktime!‘nuff said?! Canada.“Anyone seen a dentist?”
“Best ever! Normally, talks are boring, but this was amazing. I loved the photos.”
Johnny Nightingale, Ashdown House
My chai wallah companions, Raj and Vishi, with my drink anywhere magic water bottle. Pushkar.”You can have ‘em back for 50 rupees!” Scallywag’s apprentice. Kathmandhu.
“Krome’s return was greeted with rapturous enthusiasm. Few can entertain and amuse an audience of over 400 for an hour.”
John Hatton, Clifton prep
My brotherhood of anglers fishing for their supper. BaliMind yer back! Sorry ‘bout your shirt! Health and safety? What health and safety? India, of course!Himalayas. Camped in the back of a derelict truck, safe from marauding wild dogs.Quite a catch! Zoe and a 919lb. Giant Bluefin Tuna. Bimini. Bahamas.
