To infinity and beyond

Ok so where are we? I'm currently about 4.5 hours inland from Brisbane in a small country town called Miles (of about 2,000 people). Random thing about Miles is that all the bar staff are Irish. There are so many Irish out here and a few Kiwis

Shahn is B (Rockhampton) and I'm in A

 Working for a company called Powerlink as a Land Management Officer. Building the ALPNG 132kv power supply lines, a short project. Which is part of a collection system to pump the gas north.

Oh yea and its freezing this far inland easily -1 to -4 in the morning but I am on the inland side of the great dividing range which is really a small hill when compared to New Zealand.

But we can start with my first week of training in Brisbane, at the main office that has an aboretum about a quarter acre that all the office workers look out into it has little ponds and all inside with small bridges and fords very cool.

But best thing was my sweet rental cars for my first week, first I got a nice v6 commodore then I got a calais and it was awesome.

But now I'm out in the middle of nowhere, though there is a lot of work going on, but not too much fun stuff to do. Rent here is crazy $800-$3000 a week for a 3 bedroom house lucky I'm not paying that, but I have work based in Chinchilla. And I have got my self that sweet little pad in the Chinchilla and its nice.

Here is my work Ute and it is sweet as, fully set up for exploring in the rough, with diff lockers, compressor fridge and winch but I'm losing this wagon and getting a Prado at some point - bit gutted

Here is one of the powerstations we are transporting power from (just outside of Miles). Most of this area was cleared a long time ago and is not very productive land so a lot of reveg going on. I am primarily working with the Brigalow belt. This area is also prone to rapid erosion once the soil has been disturbed. Sodic soils are common and the erosion is really amazing, happens so fast.

So we have not been doing too much traveling and looking about in the last two months due to work commitments but.... good news! We now own a 4X4, to get out and about in the vast Australian outback! she is a bit of a beast but hopefully will take us to places no-one has been before,  now do we sell the little echo? not sure...

Shahn has a interview for a position in Toowoomba about 2 hours south of me, the largest inland town in australia.

I have little else to say, just can't wait to have a look around and find some fun things to get into but so it has been full on with work to do this!