Some of the extensive foreshore dunes running down to Largs Bay taken from the Semaphore Palais Hotel
A regular visitor to Semaphore, The Extraordinary Tourist was born in the town of Whyalla in South Australia in 1970; his parents are English migrants — mum is from Farsley and Dad is from Pudsey, (Leeds area) in West Yorkshire and they moved to Australia in 1967.
Originally they lived in Elizabeth, a suburb of Adelaide, where his older sister was born.
His real name is David Arandle and it is only online that he is known as The Extraordinary Tourist. Most people just call him TET.
The name is from the book The Accidental Tourist, which was later made into a film staring Gina Davis and William Hurt; David liked it and adopted it as his own.
He describes himself as an artist but there’s more to him than that — he writes stories, poems, comedy, articles, paints, draws cartoons, designs and codes websites, programs computers and creates animation, video and multimedia presentations.
Sometimes he’s a photographer, a model and a problem solver and at other times he invents things, designs games, builds stuff and manages people.
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