Up again at 6am and after the normal breakfast and muster we joined our new team led by "Bob from ACT" and we ventured to a farm 10 kms north of Bridgewater to find that another BlazeAid team was already on the adjoining property and as the farmer here was sharing his tractor with auger attached. So we formed a big team and worked together, had an huge enjoyable lunch again put on by the farmers and their wives. Lesley felt a lot better today as she got on really well with the farmers wives and we met a member of the other team and her great Landcruiser (photo) - her name is Lorraine, she's 61, travels with a rainbow lorrikeet bird and been touring around Australia now for 35 years and she is such a great person! We told her all about Joe our friend in Adelaide who also has a Landcruiser. She said she was going down to Melbourne soon then going across to camp near the Murray Mouth in S.A. to do some fishing there. We thought about sending her to Joe's place too like the back-packers before, but decided that she might be too much for him to handle! (Con, please show Joe this pic of her 'cruiser if you can!) Lesley is going to have tomorrow off as she is a little worn-out from the work the last couple of days. Vodafone Mobile and wireless internet here is really bad, Telstra is poor, but Digital TV is good, so we aren't always able to get onto the internet at the moment, but tonight I put the USB Modem on the roof of Lucky Pigs with an 10m extension cable and it is a very poor connection so we will see how we go in future with it.
Friday, March 11, 2011
BRIDGEWATER
Up again at 6am and after the normal breakfast and muster we joined our new team led by "Bob from ACT" and we ventured to a farm 10 kms north of Bridgewater to find that another BlazeAid team was already on the adjoining property and as the farmer here was sharing his tractor with auger attached. So we formed a big team and worked together, had an huge enjoyable lunch again put on by the farmers and their wives. Lesley felt a lot better today as she got on really well with the farmers wives and we met a member of the other team and her great Landcruiser (photo) - her name is Lorraine, she's 61, travels with a rainbow lorrikeet bird and been touring around Australia now for 35 years and she is such a great person! We told her all about Joe our friend in Adelaide who also has a Landcruiser. She said she was going down to Melbourne soon then going across to camp near the Murray Mouth in S.A. to do some fishing there. We thought about sending her to Joe's place too like the back-packers before, but decided that she might be too much for him to handle! (Con, please show Joe this pic of her 'cruiser if you can!) Lesley is going to have tomorrow off as she is a little worn-out from the work the last couple of days. Vodafone Mobile and wireless internet here is really bad, Telstra is poor, but Digital TV is good, so we aren't always able to get onto the internet at the moment, but tonight I put the USB Modem on the roof of Lucky Pigs with an 10m extension cable and it is a very poor connection so we will see how we go in future with it.
