The New Year

Welcome to the new year, hope everyone had a nice Christmas, New Year period and got what you wanted for Christmas. Nothing much has changed on our side, we continue to work the same jobs toward leaving the Kimberley around April, May.

Tracey and I bought a new car, 200 series Landcruiser. It will be a step up in comfort from the 76 series and a bit more power too. :-) . We pick that up in early April. Until then we will work the current jobs and sit the rest of the wet out. Speaking of wet seasons, we haven't really seen much of one yet. There have been a couple of storms out here at the mine site but that's about it.

We went fishing a few weeks ago up at Beagle Bay with an aboriginal friend that Tracey works with. Great fun and a beautiful area to spend the day. Beagle Bay is an aboriginal community about half way to Cape Lavique. The guys that took us fishing were spearing the crabs and fish and I was using a rod. Caught only one fish, a cod about 40 cm long. The mob we went with were using hand lines and catching trevalley. We had ann excellent day as we went home with half a dozen of the biggest mudcrabs I have ever seen, the claws were as big as my hands!

On another fishing trip last break I went out with a mate in his boat on Dampier Creek here in Broome and caught heaps of fish, even a shark. I learnt a lesson that day as well, catfish spines when they cut your finger is very painful. The finger is still swollen, that was 2 weeks ago!! Still had an excellent time.

Well it's 4 pm and time to get up and have dinner and go to work, 5:30pm-5:30 am. Only a few more days to go and back to Broome and another swing done. 3 to go!

Hope this post finds everyone well.