Is Long-Coat Bob and the Story of 'All Our Shimmering Skies' Inspired by Bongaree and a Self Guided Walkabout?

As I've been reading through Trent Dalton's second novel

'All Our Shimmering Skies' I kept wondering just what the main inspiration for this story was. 

Could it be just a mix of 'Peter Pan' meets 'The Wizard of Oz' meets the movie 'Australia' ... or something more?

Then when I read the first lines of page 220 in the chapter titles

'The Admiral's Coat' it hit me like a ton of bricks that this story of Trent's was probably inspired by the same

'Bongaree Self Guide Walkabout' brochure that I picked up on

Bribie Island when I did the walk with my brother, as I wrote about in this old post -

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There is even an RSL club you can walk past on the extended

Bribie Island Walkabout with a park across the road from it with a life size chopper on a pole, so I think I'm on the money with my theory about Trent's main inspiration for his second novel -
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Looks like I've figgered out where Trent got the main inspiration for 'All Our Shimming Skies' ... but don't ask me just how good I am, please ... or I might just tell you;-)

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