Hi All, Sorry about this, but I had not realised I had published the last blog incorrectly. I am at the airpor,t off again, but only for the day and had time whilst waiting for my flight to check after speaking to Jan last night who said to me, when will you finish the blog 27B. Anyway my apologies, but 27B is completed and there will be another for Christmas Island, as soon as I can get around to typing it. Andy... read more

Blog Day 800 and something, will have to check It was all going swimmingly well, Caroline had packed, and I was up early just putting my stuff in my case. We were both excited, today Tuesday 11 January we were both off on business to Christmas island, Caroline for a couple of weeks and me for slightly longer. It had been a rush to put this trip together, it was all business related and quite urgent, so the flights had been booked, and everything was green to go. I took Caroline her tea at 6.00 am, she politely grunted at me when I took it in, and as I set her tea down beside her, she picked up her Blackberry, as I had turned on my heels and was heading for a shave. Caroline called out ... read more

Well, soon I was sitting on the plane, on the tarmac of Christmas Island airport, the Pilot pushed the throttles forwards and we were hurtling down the runway and as we gained height, we banked to the left and I took my last look at Christmas Island for 2010. The flight to Perth took 2.45 Minutes and I arrived in the international side and I had to head to the domestic terminal which was a taxi ride which was about a half an hour away. I had travelled back with two of my colleagues, Rob and June who were having there Christmas break off the Island in, Perth with their family. They were supposed to be collecting a rental car from Budget rent a car at the international side, but were told that the car was ... read more

Tuesday night was our last club night for ACT 4 wheel drive club, we had a sausage sizzle down at Molonglo Reach which was great fun, and hopefully next year we can do a bit more with the club as they do have some good trips coming up. Talking to one of the guys there who organises such trips, he was saying in 2013 they will be doing a possible trip doing some tracks we really want to do, such as the Gun Barrel highway, Gary Junction which are all sort of, left of centre on the big map of Australia. As I have said before I have a deep respect for the late Len Beadell whom carved out 2.5 Million square miles of un explored Australia, so feel we need to go and do ... read more

Well blog readers, on Wednesday 1st December, was the first official day of Australian summer time, and yep it was raining. In fact it has rained virtually constantly since last Sunday. When we came to Canberra back in January 2010, we noted that the dams were 47% full or there about and today as I set this blog out on Saturday the 4th December they are 100% full which is the first time in 30 years, so said the Television last night. Back in the UK we would get the odd spell of a Water shortage, throughout their 2 days of summer, but we never really appreciated just how precious this H20 stuff really is, certainly until we understood how it affected the growing of crops at our favourite farm, which was in drought for ... read more

Blog day 752 Well having a mini complaint from one of Kangaroojacks avid readers, it has sparked us/me to produce something. Firstly I apologise for us being so slack in blogging, when we were travelling it was hard enough, but now being fully employed and travelling with work it just seems impossible. So I (Andy) am going to do my round up to this point in time and I know Caroline has got one in the chamber ready to go. This month Caroline had got trip to Christmas Island, I was so delighted as it’s a unique place in the world that not many people will get the chance of seeing Don’t get me wrong, !! I am not saying that in a smug way, but a practical one, its true, because of our work we ... read more

Blog Day 732 It was Sunday morning and Caroline was due home today, her flight was coming into Canberra at 09.30 and I was looking forward to seeing her. In reality it has been just over two days that I have spent with Caroline since the 9th of August when I went off to Christmas Island, then Weipa, then came back and Caroline had already left for the UK. Strangely enough, when I was flying back in to Sydney, Caroline was flying out on her transatlantic flight back to the UK. In our 20 years of Marriage, I guess if you roll them up we have probably spent at least five years apart, which I don’t think is a bad thing. Anyway, Caroline, Airport, Focus. Ah yes, I have been using Caroline’s desk whilst she has ... read more