We're Off (again)

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.

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.

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.