Day 61 Newman (Again)
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 07:35AM Hello Bloggies, firstly thanks for all the replies to last nights blog, good to see what you all desire to come back as. Heather a Tibetan Monk with Alcohol & Air con, Sandy W a Black Fella, Brad A... a world champion surfer, My mum wants to come back as my dog because she has the best life in the world! My sister Georgia a crow or an eagle, Rob wants to be ME! And Nikki just thinks I’ve lost it!
Not that I believe in reincarnation mind you! But I reckon Rob is on the right track, I have the perfect life, even better than Rob described as I also have Brad as a son too!
Heather & Sandy..... Who the hell is the Commando? Wake up to yourselves both of you!
Ok I have to go on the defence here, some of you have questioned the character of my mate Bear Grills. You have said that he has a camera crew, & support vans & he does not really eat the things he does! Well if you were a real Bear Grills fan you would notice at the start of his show he explains that he does have medical assistance with him, and he does have support if required! So What!...... I hope all of you doubters get lost in the desert or bush & cant rely on your Bear Grills knowledge to save you! Georgia, I have been telling the same thing to James for months but he is so obsessed he can’t see past anything else but what Bear does!!
Last night we had dinner then went out to the wet mess for my last night on site, we talked with Hugh about the documentary that I mentioned in a previous blog. Ok here is a poll, if there was a documentary with two guys roughly the same age travelling around Australia, one of them in a wheelchair & one able bodied...... Would you watch it? But the twist is that the able bodied person would not help the other guy in any way, actually he would be a bit of a bastard and expect the guy in the wheelchair to do everything that the other guy does!
I reckon it could work, Hugh wants to do it 3 times, once by motorbike (I could ride a trike) once by plane (Hugh has his pilot’s license) & once by boat, neither of us can sail! So it would be great!
We are going to Hugh’s place while we are in Perth to work out if it is feasible.
We went shopping in Newman today, it was a strange feeling! Back to civilization. There were shops and people and cars and it was awesome, Ness & I sat in a cafe and just watched people walk past, no one had Hi visibility clothing on or work boots! And yes I wandered up and down all the aisles of Woolworths again...and loved it!!
Tomorrow we have an actual day off, we are thinking of things to do, there are a few gorges around Newman & waterfalls, or we could just veg! I have a couple of books to get through, there is a great bike path all around town, there is a pool here.... maybe we can have a day just doing nothing? (No comments about that being my normal day!)
This blog is late tonight, we just got back from Radio Hill where we did some good old fashioned Parking! We sat at the lookout and watched the sun go down. Then we stayed there and watched the town at night, we could also see the minesite from where we were, all the industrial lighting was beautiful. I wish I could say that we would show you some pictures but when I went to take some my camera battery was flat! Bugger.
While we were up the lookout we saw that both the footy ovals had their lights on, so on the way back we called past the ovals, the guys were just starting training for the night so I called one over and asked him when he plays, he was a friendly sort of bloke called Duke & invited us into the club rooms to watch the footy tomorrow night, so guess where we will be on Saturday night in Newman. Watching a good old game of Aussies rules in an outback country town...now this is why I went on the road with my husband. By the way Dukes plays for the Saints...so that has to be a good omen as this is Dan’s team.
Ok just some readers questions, my sister Georgia asked the longest we have driven without seeing another car or vehicle, well we drove from Wiluna to Meekatharra & passed 1 truck going the same way, and only saw one other car full of black fella’a coming the other way. So 1 car in 178km.
My other sister Heather has a problem with Crows at her new house, any suggestions to get rid of them? She does not like snakes so plastic snakes are not an option. Anyone have a spare shotgun? Heather near us the wineries use Percussion guns to scare birds away, they let off a bang every hour or so and it seems to keep birds away from the grapes.
See you all soon, can’t wait till the footy tomorrow in the club rooms with Duke!
James & Ness
Reader Comments (4)
Yeah I'd watch the "documentary with two guys" .........I actually think a programme like that would rate highly !
Just on the subject of Bear Grills, I suggest you watch "surviorman", he's better than Bear because he does every thing himself......no camera man.....no medical staff.
He spends seven days in different enviroments with bugger-all supplies and does it pretty tough.....worth a look.
Cheers.
James
The comando eats bear grills for breakfast and he is sooooooooooo much more better looking!
id watch the video of two guys if one was you as you love to do everything yourself anyway so there would be no problems you would get on great
Thanks for asking who Commando is............I was thinking it was some dude that goes 'commando', which to my understanding is .....not wearing any undies under their pants or shorts. So pretty much I thought Heather and Sandy had the hots for anyone not wearing undies!
Survivorman is far better than Bear Grills, and Josh assures me that he is the real deal.
Enjoy the footy.