Well - it’s been just over two and a half years since we
arrived home after our first 18 month meander around Oz and we are off again
for round two of see more of Oz. We expect to be away around 18 months again so
I have decided to kick off my travel blog again. We arrived home last trip in October 2012 expecting
to stay around 5 months and then hit the road again.
So much for that plan!
An unplanned meeting with a mate of mine at the Good Guys
resulted in me returning to work for 2 years. The knock on effect from this was
that we had to find somewhere to live – so we purchased a permanent site van at
Murray River Caravan Park in South Yunderup.
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| HMAS Warramunga & Ballarat |
The 2 years at work
was on the Anzac Ship ASMD Upgrade Program (ASMD) – an extremely challenging
and interesting program where 8 ships are planned to spend 12 months completing
millions of dollars of complex upgrade at BAE’s Henderson Facility. My two
years within the Program years saw the first three of these completed and the fourth
commenced. There was never a dull moment
and I had the opportunity to work with a large team of smart and enthusiastic
people. Made lots of new friends and learnt a lot.
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| View from our home on Murray River |
Life at the Murray
River Caravan Park on the banks of the Murray River is all about friends,
fishing, crabbing and the occasional cold beer.
I have the dubious honor of
teaching a band of dedicated “poppers” how to catch whiting on lures. This is
something I may regret as I fear that the apprentices have now become masters
and the stocks of whiting may be seriously depleted! Great bunch of people at a
great location.
We are heading across the Nullarbor to spend 4 weeks in
South Australia – 3 on Eyre Peninsula and a week in the Flinders Ranges
(Wilpina Pound) before heading north to warmer climates – so real travel blogs
soon to follow.
