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...longest road, its longest continuous highway, or the longest without crossing a national border. Whatever the qualification, there's no doubt it's long. Some 15,000 km of multi-lane freeway, dual carriageway, two-lane bitumen and corrugated dirt, it circles the Australian mainland, never far from the coast, and bisects Tasmania...
...hard-to-catch threadfin salmon. Glen, a tanned and trim 62-year-old who still works as a carpenter, keeps an eye on the charts, goes to fish two hours before full tide, and stays for an hour after its peak. When the tide is out on this shallow coast, he'll walk 3 km over the wet sand to cast his line...
Every Thursday night for the past 19 years, Rudolph Valentino has wordlessly fought the same rival and lost and won the same woman above the fading velveteen seats of the Majestic Theatre at Pomona (pop. 900), 30 km inland from the Sunshine Coast. And on most of those nights, Ron West has provided the silent movie's voice on his Wurlitzer pipe organ, playing swirly harp sounds when the heroine swoons, shifting to a sinister key when the villain appears, and pulling up short when the hero reins his horse...
...Sunshine-Coast resort asked if the Wests could screen "something nostalgic" for a coach load of travel agents. They pulled out Son of the Sheik-and had an instant hit. Three months later the theater went all-silent, and the organ (whose pipes "speak" through a vent from a side room) has hardly had a quiet moment since. As well as the Thursday-night show, West runs an annual silent-film festival and puts on extra screenings by request-earlier today, for a group of New Zealand golfers whose game was rained...
...last year studying to become a health and physical education teacher. But the prospect of working full-time holds no appeal for her, while being placed out west somewhere and not being able to surf is out of the question. She won't even holiday away from the coast. "People keep calling me a dreamer," she says. "It's, 'What kind of house do you want to live in when you're older?' 'Are you going to have kids?'-all these real-life questions. I'm still trying to get this responsibility thing. I'm grasping...