"Carol and Gwenda"
Part One.
In 1970 I had just finished my final year at high School. I had decided along with my parents, that instead of heading straight on to university I would travel and work for a couple of years before settling down to the 4 years of hard graft from which I planned to graduate with a fine arts degree.
The previous year had been an interesting one with not a lot of scholastic pressure as I had already attained my UE (university entrance) and a bursary the previous year to that. With my best mate Jack, we had sailed and surfed, and had a pretty wild few months indulging in some pretty much over the top sex with a couple of girls.
(Note: Read my previous story, 'The Island.')
By rights I should have just gone straight on and started my degree. However, any sort of scholastic achievement didn't come easy to me and although I had a natural talent with regards to art, I knew that I would have to work bloody hard to get my degree. I wanted a bit more of a break before I committed. My father was keen as hell to get me into the family printing business which would mean starting on the factory floor, and I couldn't think of anything worse than a couple of years of 40-hour boring weeks.
My saviour came in the form of my eldest brother. Cam (Cameron) was 4 years older than me and had been living in Sydney for the past year or so. After attending university for a year, he had found he had been conscripted. In my country any male over 18 years of age went into a ballot and if your birth date was drawn, you were required to do Compulsory Military Training or in other words go into the army. The training wasn't compulsory until he had finished university, but there was no way he intended doing it, my country was involved in the Vietnam war and although the troops involved were volunteers that could change at any time, so he applied to continue his studies in Australia and skipped the country. It would be 10 years before the authorities finally got off his back.
Cam was born a pacifist. When we were kids, nothing would entice him into any form of violence, and it wasn't from lack of trying on my part. No matter how hard I would try to get him to play fight or however hard I tried to get him mad at me, he would just laugh. But don't get the idea he was soft, he was as tough as they come, spending the last 4 years on Prawn, then Tuna fishing boats before working as a rough neck on a Bass Straight drilling rig. My father was in the Air Force during World War 11 and was still involved with the territorial forces when Cam decided to become a conscientious objector. To Dad's credit he respected Cam's views and consequent actions despite a long family history of military service.
The upshot of all this is Cam asks me to join him in a surf trip up the coast to Queensland and wherever else we may decide to go. I flew into Sydney and met Cam at the airport, loaded my board and gear into the old 'Commer' campervan he had brought, and we headed to his digs in Woolloomooloo, an old part of Sydney town.
The following week before we left to head north was to be a hell of an education to me. Cam's flatmates were a gay couple named August and Augustine and a stripper by the name of Sally. I couldn't get my head around August and Augustine. They both looked like one another and dressed like twins, spoke like one another, and copied each other in everything they did. The two of them were very effeminate and because they wore these ankle length Kaftan dresses, I had trouble working out their gender but assumed they were males. Sally was hot as hell; she would come and go at all hours and wander around the flat in next to nothing or nothing at all.
She was a tease; she knew exactly how to push my buttons. A redhead, about 5'8" with fair skin a 35' pair of gorgeous tits and an almost bald pussy with just a small 'landing patch' as she called it, of red pubes. Cam had told me he had fucked her, or in his words she fucked him and don't be surprised if she hits me up. "Sometimes she gets as horny as hell and any male will do. She's a raging Nymphomaniac."
Cam had a week of work left before he finished a six-month contract working for a construction company on a new high-rise, which left me time to explore Sydney and its beaches. Bondi didn't do a lot for me being so crowded, something I wasn't used to. So, Cam would drop me off with my board at the Manly ferry terminal each morning. A trip across the harbour and a short walk meant I was usually in the water by 7am. Universities and some schools had finished for the year and the beach was full of lines of the hottest chicks I had ever seen soaking up the sun.
I was an okay surfer certainly not up there with a couple of the local hotshots but on the second day at the beach the swell got up, conditions I excelled in, and the locals took note. As the swell got even bigger most surfers cleared out of the water, a small group of us remained. The Aussies started to talk with me sussing where I was from before I fluked not one but two absolute monster waves that I was able to let rip on. We had quite an audience, and I felt very self-conscious as I made my way back up the beach. Everyone was a bit curious as to who this dude was who just showed up out of the blue and ripped apart the two biggest waves of the day. As I towelled off a couple of chicks sidled up to me and started chatting. Both were gorgeous.
"Hi, haven't seen you around before, where you are from?"
"Hi girls, I'm Tim...no I'm a Kiwi."
"Aw...cool accent you've got, never met a Kiwi before, are you staying around here?"
"No...I'm staying over in the city," I smiled at them.
"That's a shame...I'm Tracey and this is Sue...you've got a nice smile...I really like your eyes...they're come to bed eyes...you can stay at our place if you like, it's just up there...we'll be having a party tonight." Tracey pointed up to a block of flats.
I laughed. "Thanks girls, that's a nice offer. Might have to give it a miss though. Only got my boardies and T shirt with me and thanks for the compliments."
The two girls looked at each other. "Don't worry about that, you won't be needing them with what I've got in mind...do you want to root us?"
I just about choked. I'd never had an offer like that before.
"Hey...fuck off ya slags...leave the dude alone."
"Aw piss off Col...we were just talking to him."
"Yeah, I bet." Tracey and Sue wandered off as one of the guys who had surfed with me dropped his board and shook hands with me."
"I'm Colin mate, everyone calls me Col, did those slags try and hit you up?"
"Ah yeah...hadn't had an offer like that before. Offered me a bed and a party...and sex."