Yes, folks, the picture on the left is a bit toothy, but Mike is friendly with the silverbacks. Mike was Australia's Most Eligible Bachelor in 1988. Below you can read how far he has traveled beyond that, as he tells us about life in Africa.

"I live in a part of Kenya which, unfortunately, suffered from tribal problems in 1997. As a result, my business suffered severly and many of our friends and neighbors left. I had been here for almost 30 years and had no intention of leaving.
I drove 20 kilometers into Mombasa and bought a book from a computer store. It was called 'Dummies Guide To The Internet'. I read the book and got a computer. Within 2 years, I had survived the slump in the local market and was receiving orders from overseas via my website. I am now head of my own company designing websites for local businessses, own a hundred domain names and my longtime friend Sabine is running Funzi Furniture with typical German efficiency. She has also developed her own line of designer furniture, most of which is under our Funzi line on our website.
We both take time off to pursue our other interests. We often take expeditions into the interior and have recently returned from taking an American film crew for an extended walk along the remote beaches of northern Tanzania with an army of local porters.
Other expeditions have been seven transits of the Sahara desert in an old army truck, a two week local canoe voyage around the entire island of Zanzibar, and a trail bike safari across the extinct volcano of Longonot in Northern Kenya.
I have also consulted on many films for Australian television including expeditions to the Mountain Gorillas of the Congo and a voyage up the Ituri river in the Congo with the Ituri Forest Pygmies, in the footsteps of Stanley.
My sport is spearfishing off the local coast where I hold the world record for the largest Cobia ever shot on spear at 101 lbs."