Blogs from Banjup, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania

11 July 2015 Wasn’t it the Beatles who said, I wanna hold your hand, Now I don’t want you guys drifting off to sleep, or hurting yourself out of sheer boredom but the above date was an important one for me and as this blog is not just for your entertainment, its also an aide memoir for us, so we can look back and go wow, do you remember when we did that.. Lets start with the simple stuff first. You know we drove 60,000 K’s circumnavigating Australia in 2008-2009 and when we did the only communications we had was a UHF radio, this only has line of site range. When we lived in Canberra and in the ACT 4 Wheel Drive Club we purchased a satellite phone, which was good but not quite the solution ... read more

Work Week Hustle 22/05/2015 I had a medical appointment at the Royal Perth Hospital on Friday 22nd May, so parked the cruiser at Cockburn train station and went in to Perth on the train. I have lost 14 Kilo’s, my GP had suggested I do so as it was conducive to my ongoing health and had her parting word to me on the 28th of January were I don’t care how you do it, just do it! When I went back to see her on 23rd April I had lost 10 Kilo’s she asked me how I did it and I said through controlled starvation, she said the shedding of 10 Kilo’s was great but I needed to take more exercise, she didn’t really say to much on how I did it, but who cares I ... read more

We were asked by the travel blog moderators if we would like to write the new Country Description for Australia as they thought the old one was out of date and it needed a refresh, we obviously accepted the offer as we felt capable of writing what was required. Caroline and I sat down and looked at Australia and wrote down what we considered a traveller would want to know about a country as a brief description, based on the fact that we only had between 250 and 300 words to write, this would be a snap shot of Australia. We started our country description, with Australia the Lucky Country, we truly believe it is, and we are truly grateful to be living here. We have fantastic weather, most of the time, a very small population, ... read more

Land of the Giants They say size matters, whoever “they” are and I guess it’s true, Australia has the biggest mining company in the world, and we also have the biggest open cut mine in the world, so without the need for one upmanship, we were excited that the Giants were coming to Perth and I believe that they were not visiting any other part of this massive country, so we were very privileged to get the opportunity to see them. For the past couple of months they were advertising on TV, the fact that the Giants were coming to Perth which would be part of the Perth International Arts Festival and this was the weekend they would be here. So first let me set the scene and tell you about where the Giants Come from. ... read more