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| Sunset at the Fairbairn Dam |
We went for a drive with Richard out to where all the underground coal mines are located, they are about an hour away from Emerald. We weren't really sure what to expect but there is very little physical impact on mine site, to look at there is just site buildings and then there is the big ass piles of coal being offloaded from conveyor belts. On the way out there, there was a Police escorted wide load trucks with mine vehicles being sent to Emerald to be fixed/serviced - If any big loads have Police assistance you MUST pull over, luckily we had Richard with us to tell us to pull over as we would have just rolled on through. Classic!
We went to see some of Richards mates, Shaun and Dawn Goodman for a yarn and ended up staying for a few beers. They have two little kiddies Poppy and Guss, they are pretty funny kids. Poppy decided she wanted to paint everyone's toe nails, the boys were not excluded either!
I got bright red toes done, fully all over my actual toes - jandals (oh sorry, thongs... NOT) got a bit hammered too haha! Richard had a delightful shade of bluey-green, he was pretty chuffed! And Eak got gold glitter, he thought his toes looked a lot better shimmery and golden.
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| Cute little Poppy skillfully beautifying Eaks toes! |
Eak has bought a fishing net/crab pot, and on our many trips to the Dam we drop it in to see what is lurking in the lake! On our first drop (bait: blue cheese wrapped in bread) we caught a freshwater cray - wasn't quick enough for a picture. The second drop we didnt catch anything (bait: just bread). The third drop we caught a cat fish and a mud fish (bait: chicken with stuffing and bread).
Michael with his net (and new haircut, à la Shahn's skills)
Our catch of the day... We tagged and released all of these fishies (and the cray) as we didn't really want to eat them and we are not sure what the size limits are. Yip kosher Coastwatch, right here!
Michael finished up picking watermelons Sunday 29/3/12, after being rained off for 2 days. He started at the Cotton Gin seasonal work on Monday 30/3/12, he is driving some pretty budget trucks (the leader truck with no gear leaver have to use a piece of wire and jiggle it to find the gears up reverse, down a bit neutral, and push it a bit you get forward. Classic and rangi as) and then generally hanging out. Its 12 hour days, 6 days a week with Fridays off.
By working such big hours it will put us in the black until we can find something more fruitful to spend the rest of our time in Aussie until our further travels fall into place!
The beast "Leader" circa 1980 - The truck Eak has the pleasure of driving everyday!
Bales of cotton ready to be processed.
xxxx Love Shahn & Eak
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