Figured I better make time to scratch out a brief update, seeing as I missed a week already. Either I must have been too busy, or else the Australian cruisyness is beginning to grow on me. Here's hoping it's the former, I think.
Being a Kiwi is brilliant this week, nothing like walking up to an Aussie and mentioning the Bledisloe cup. When we beat them again tonight I shall enjoy pointing out that fact too.
Well I can't even remember what I did last week, so I won't be able to write much about that. I think I mostly was around the workshop doing bench repairs and programming repeaters from what I can recall. This week was interesting, quiet at times and then all go the rest of the time. Monday I had my marine hat on most of the day, I was working on boats for a change. Fixed a satellite phone and had a look at an HF radio which was playing up. I would have had a chance to drive a patrol vessel around but I haven't got my boating license so they couldn't let me and had to get someone else in to do it instead.
Tuesday started out with simple bench work, until we got a phone call with a repeater out at one of the mines, so I had to drive out to Callide and fix that. Turned out it wasn't able to be fixed on site, so I had to remove it and drive back to Gladstone to get a replacement. By then it was well past going home time so we decided to take the new one back the next day, even though they had to shut the pit down as they didn't have any comms.
So, Wednesday I ended up back at Callide, fixed the repeater, and then got asked to bring some gear out to the guys working at Moura, so ended up carrying on and gave them a hand for half an hour or so before finally hitting the road to head home again. I ended up doing about 650 KM those two days, luckily I managed to get a vehicle that was in reasonable condition for that trip.
Thursday and Friday were a bit more sedate, finally caught up on the bench work, and then found out that Tuesday I'm out putting a mast up, wednesday is a holiday, and thursday friday I'm back out at Moura... It's all go here.
Finally got some more plaster for my layout this weekend, and plastered up my second and third hills. Hopefully when they are painted they will come up alright, I'm not entirely convinced I have enough texture yet but time will tell. I have used a couple of rock moulds so that should help.
The ducks in the pond are getting more and more tame, they will try and take the bread out of your hand from behind before you can tear bits off to throw to the other ducks. It is quite entertaining walking out the back gate with a bit of bread, as once you throw one bit the entire pond becomes a flapping mess of ducks and swamp hens trying to get there as quickly as possible. Also spotted our lonely Egret again today, he doesn't seem to do much, just hangs around.
Right, I better go and get some lunch, so I shall leave you with some more pictures.
TTFN.
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