Day 70 - Port Hedland
Friday, August 3, 2012 at 10:05AM Ok sorry…. We got TV reception & the Olympics are on!..... No more blogs!
Ha! Just kidding, I wouldn’t let you all off that easy….you keep me amused. Well we are in a different place, Pt Hedland is much bigger than Tom Price, it’s main purpose is a deep water port, so the ships can sail right into town, load up their iron ore and sail right out to China. Most of the mines in the Pilbara send their ore here by rail, it then gets loaded onto ships and off it goes.
Here’ s a story for you though, about 6 years ago I was here working, and they asked me if I wanted to go out with the Pilot to drop him on a ship, you see the ships that come into Pt Hedland are usually foreign ships with foreign crews, and they have to have an Aussie pilot on board as they come into port. So that means a helicopter has to take the pilot approx 80km out and drop him onto the ship, they asked me if I’d like to go on the helicopter with them…I said Bloody Oath!
Anyway I’m getting sidetracked, I was thinking on the way here today, if a truck driver needs a pee does he stop? I mean they are on pretty tight schedules, and the cost of stopping a fully laden truck and then getting it going again, the fuel costs alone would be $20-$30, wouldn’t it be easier to just pee in a bottle? Maybe someone should design a driving pee bottle? Just a thought.
I have the TV on while I write tonight & they are switching between sports, I’ve got a couple of suggested changes….Fencing, get rid of the suits & take the plastic tip off the sword! Show us some blood, and imagine years down the track being able to say “See this scar, I got it at the Olympics!”
Jousting should be an Olympic sport! That would keep the Horsey people happy & also the ones that don’t like horsey events. Javelin should be at live targets, maybe release a chicken or a pig or a goat and then 8 competitors throw their javelins? First one to ping it wins gold & gets to eat the animal! And trampolining, 2 people should get on the trampoline at the same time & the first one to “Double bounce” the other one off wins gold!......Oh I could go on & on & on!....But wont. Thanks goodness….
Reader’s comments
Not many last night, but Meredith sent us an email with her thoughts of animals wandering past the van with dressing gowns on? Meredith I think the cold NZ winter has finally got to you! You are seriously weird! Takes one to know one!!
Georgia said last nights camping spot would have been a good place to watch Wolf Creek! Nah we will save it for when we go to Wolf Creek on the way home!
Annie’s Blog
Hello peoples, we have a new place to live, yesterday we packed lots of stuff into the box on wheels & drove away from the Tom place, the box on wheels is very well trained now because it followed us all the way. We drove for a couple of hours until my bum started to hurt and then I got a bit grizzly, so Dad found this old track and turned off the road into the bush….. it was amazing, we watched the sun disappear and then in the morning it tried to trick us, it came up on the other side! Naughty Sun! and last night was the biggest moon in the world, it was sooooo pretty. And then this morning we came to another place with heaps more boxes on wheels, I’ll tell you more about it tomorrow. Oh and Jack I do have a Hoot, but it’s not a real one…..Dad puts his hand up its bum and it doesn’t even make a noise so it can’t be a real one!
Night all
AnnieInAVan….XXXXX
Reader Comments (3)
A bit confused at your request for a bottle to pee into be invented.... What needs inventing? A bottles a bottle and if all else fails a big cup works well too... just saying
James - I call it a highly active creative mind - it's exhausting being such a creative genius.
Apparently the Kiwis have already resolved the issue of peeing in difficult situations (well for women anyway - check out www.shewee.co.nz)
Annie - bet Dad knows all about having a sore bottom from sitting down in one spot for too long. Not sure I should say this in the next sentence BUT I also missed the amazingly BIG moon - Nathan saw it in Christchurch and rang me to tell me about it but it was all cloudy here in Auckland so I didn't get to see it. Glad to hear you enjoyed camping out..
Ness - how about you take over the Blog one day and give us your perspective of things...would be nice to hear from the Matriarch.......
Nathan and I spent today being tourists in our own City - it was fun - nice to do every now and then
Hi to the three of you - missing you heaps. Ness every time I look at the last photo of you and Annie on your album I cannot help but think how much alike the two of you are - Annie even laughs like you as well as talks like you.
Enjoy the Olympics - must admit some of the events do get a little tedious but you have to admire the competitors - they have worked so very hard to get to London.
So glad that Annie seems to love her Hoot.
Speak to you soon. Love Sandy