Into the light

By Frank Robson
March 22 2014 - 4:00am
Hard rain … former standover man David Holmes in the rainforest where he was tortured and dumped. Photo: Paul Harris
Hard rain … former standover man David Holmes in the rainforest where he was tortured and dumped. Photo: Paul Harris

David "Hippie" Holmes leads the way up a rainforest track at Currumbin Falls behind the Gold Coast. The setting is a sort of in-between zone: only a short drive from the venal distractions of the glitter strip, yet on the edge of the daunting wilderness surrounding the McPherson Ranges, whose craggy peaks - spanning the hinterland of the Queensland-NSW border - rise to the sky ahead of us.

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