Here’s a final pic. from 1973. It was taken in the garden of an opulent house we were renting in Double Bay, one of the more exclusive suburbs in Sydney. The name of the house was “Hare Hatch” so we all thought it was just suitable for the Hare Krishnas. It lasted a few months till eventually the landlord came under so much pressure from the neighbours that he forced us to leave.

It was one of many homes Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha had in the early days of Sydney yatra.

Their Lordships had to change abodes at least nine times before finally settling at their current temple in N. Sydney in the early 1990s.

Amogha prabhu was our resident photographer and he got me to pose on the lawn in the early morning around September 1973. I don’t remember exactly what for, he was doing some kind of photo essay:

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