I'll tell you where the sunshine is, it's right here. I'm very impressed with the Queensland winter weather, certainly beats NZ winters temperature wise.
Well it has been a pretty busy week this week, spent two days down south doing site checks, and then spent the rest of the week doing repairs on emergency services systems.
The trip south was interesting, first time I had been to Hervey Bay so it was good to get a look around, got some good video of some weird stuff, pelicans, kookaburras and the like. Am looking forward to going back down there when I have a bit more time to look around. The town is a lot bigger than I expected, the beach is huge.
I think Ryan upset some cockatoos when he cleared their nests from the radio tower, he tried to hide from them but dressed in hi viz yellow he was having as much luck hiding as a giraffe wearing a mask would have if he tried to enter a "polar bears only" end of year function.
As usual, nothing is easy, the checks turned out to be a lot more than just checks, and took way longer than they should have... but that's a whole 'nother story.
We were pretty much on time heading home, until all of a sudden there was a huge queue of traffic in front of us at a stand still. We jumped on the CB and asked what was going on, and it turned out the queue was already about 4KM long and there was a car off the road, a lady was driving her 3 kids home and fell asleep and drove into a tree. We were that far away we couldn't even hear the helicopter come in and land.
So that delayed the trip for about 2 hours. It's probably hard to imagine for a Kiwi, because in NZ they just set up a detour and your away again, but over here there is only one road and it's a long one, and surrounded by bush. If it's blocked, you sit in your car and wait, and hope you have water on board if it's going to be a while. The good thing is everyone has CB so everyone more or less knows what's going on, and most people help out. If the emergency services need a doctor or medic, or even supplies, they jump on the radio and ask and it gets passed down the line until someone can help out, and then they radio back saying "I'm on my way" and then they drive up the wrong side of the road (cos it's blocked anyway) and go and help out.
Very impressed with the way most Auzzies just all pitch in and help when someone is genuinely in need.
Back to the mine next week, should be interesting as usual.
Right, I better go and get ready for dinner, we are heading out to the yacht club a meal with the other Kiwis we know.
TTFN
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