Sunday, March 16, 2008

Little Tour While Suffering Sleeplessness

I was offered a tour of the local region by the electrical guy i am working with on night shift, we arranged to meet and go out for a late lunch, we went to a local town(75Km) and had proper english fish and chips with a lemon squash, the fish was fantastic, all firm and fresh and i did asked for a small portion and was given what i would call a double portion. it was fantastic and almost made me smile and raised my morale from morbid to miserable, which is a bonus i wasnt expecting, we also went to a local reservoir which feeds all the local towns and is built on the Harding river, it was bigger than i expected as the area is as flat as a fart but we found the hills it is built in and the level was down even if we are in the cyclone season, not good news, but there were a mass of the State bird, the Black swan on the overspill and river just below the dam, we also got caught out by an iron ore train that is about 1 mile long, maybe 1/2 a mile, but it was long and they run all the time as the port had 4 ship filling up and 3 waiting to fill, Australia is making a mint with the boom in metals.

The train just went on forever



Black Swans everywhere



The pool is very nice but as hot as a Jacuzzi, lovely!!!

2 Comments:

At 7:18 PM, Blogger John said...

Be nice to the Aussies, then they may give you beer.

 
At 6:30 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Gidday Chef Dave...Tonight i have been doing a search for friends i havnt seen for half a lifetime...i stumbled across your site when i typed in CHEF in my search. I am a 62 year old West Aussie...lived in Perth all my life and i was so delighted to read a visitors view on our gorgeous city and coastal beaches (did u know that Perth is the most isolated capital city on earth...that is in distance to another capital and in our case that is Adelaide South Australia)
...however i so enjoyed your review on Darwin. Would you believe the average Aussie has never been there. I spent a couple of years in Darwin in the 1970's...before Cyclone Tracy...i loved DARWIN and the lifestyle tho' the humidity nearly killed me. But your description of Darwin...post TRACY...is quite different from what i remember...however Aussies in Brisbane,Adelaide,Sydney,all of TASMANIA,Melbourne,Perth and Canberra wouldnt have a clue about the 'northern' lifestyle. Your blog is great...you are honest...happy travelling...best wishes....HELEN swanriverangel@arach.net.au

 

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