Port Lincoln and local environment - Sept- Nov.

Great to wake up in our home bed!! Soon up and at it, accounts and diary updated. Checked the garden more closely – fruit trees shoots new growth, the lemons going well. Hedge shrubs doing okay. Heaps of leaf litter and twigs and the weeds.  

Backed the caravan down the driveway – Opp’s, no stopping once off the road and a slow slide into the side of the shed – one sheet panel damaged. 

No damage to the caravan, the port corner bumper did the damage.

Straightened up the van and applied full electronic brakes and under control for the  2^nd attempt.

After a few months of King Ash Bay dust ready for a______

CLEAN!

Water blaster sure helps

Good water management - drained the bore water

Parked up for awhile and ready for the Linden's visit early October

Off for a walk – 7 degrees – Mad!! Plus we got rain/drizzled on as we got to PP. 

Removed and assembled tinnie trailer. Duncan Moore dropped around to quote on the shed damage - $100 – 150. Okay proceed.

Off loaded the lot to sort it out and get some weights

0730hrs noise curfew lifted – working folks sleeping in on a Sunday!

Rake the leaf and twigs – 1hr 20min. Some weeding in the process and checked water reticulation. Full bin plus a bag full, thats what we call a low maintenance garden. 

Pritty good considering we had been away 3+ months

Boat Supplies – 4 bow Bimini for $200 – discounted from a customer whom had returned after 1 year, perfect fit for our 4.2 tinnie. Chook delivered after work.

Off load the tinnie and onto its trailer. Removed the tinnie tosser, and motor cradle.  Remove most to the stuff in the cargo area and weighed. All up with some weights estimated 570kg.

Got rid of the Mud tires. New tires on the front and rotate tires – now 6 in the rotation schedule. 

Spot the road treasures = one glove in the gutter and the 2nd glove above the street light shadow. Both in good condition and very rare

Removed the wheel carrier from the troopy – installed a PVC cover for the swing arm axel stub, and used a worm drive clamp to hold insitu. 

Weight with # plate holder and tool holder plus brackets – 20.4kg. All up 75kg for just one spare wheel. Looks good.

Off to the Salmon Hole for a fish

Sue landed a very small fillet or two

Meanwhile we'll have snags with onion for lunch

0430hrs out the cot and off with hot coffee – Chook on arrived 0455hrs – launch the boat and onsite at the pumping station 0520hrs. Our own private fishing ground – so private the ‘FISH’ don’t even know about it! However soon onto some squid. I persevered with a snapper rig with no takers. Finally a small yellow fin rig, leather jacket, then busted off on a bigger one.

Tried for some squid with my jigs – no takers. Put one of Chooks on – same colour and size Jumbo uses – 2^nd cast = SQUID! Go figure – get rid of all the other crap.

0900hrs home with a food grade squid and some fresh bait, chucked all our old stuff well past it's use by date, even as bait.

Low maintenance, easy weeds. Knee pads on and good to go 

30 minutes later all done

Not a happy camper, viral infection required a couple of nights in Port Lincoln hospital. IV med's soon sorted it out.

Guess who demolished Sue tea

Soon home with some flowers from our neighours Marg and Nev.

Hi! guys and girls

Linden, Matthew and BJ got the thumbs up

for the 5 star catering 

0430hrs off fishing with Chook – no snapper, 

11 squid and 5 KGW. Not too cold on the water, generally calm, a cool 7 degrees at our place.

No guessing who Linden is barracking for - AFL grand final - West Coast Eagle won by 5 points.

Morning walk via Stenross slip - magic 

Breakfast and off to the National Park to check my walking trail with Matt and BJ. Lindens off visiting folks. 0930hrs guys okay.

20 Minutes later Nah! We are staying here to watch a movie. Snags and onions pre-cooked – we are going. 

Still solid, no way it's falling

Will tackle when it's dry

Now this is obstructing the trail

All done for a few months

Lunch in the park

Off home, and back to school boy's.

Ready to install the troopy roof rack

Borrowed from Nevile

Good to load

Nevile out with the hedge shear - saves cranking up the mower for this small patch

Troopy weight 

Safely in place and will come in handy now we do not need to transport our tinnie north

Tinnie tosser stored 

Chooks grand kids out for an early fishing trip, still a bit weary

Milo and biscuit dunking

Anode - before

After - Last checked Feb. 2015, installed new August 2011. As we use predominantly rain water it's in good condition   

Happy to be home after our far west coast fishing trip and breakfast on the veranda 

Fig tree getting established

The Badams access road off Paige Street 

He's done for the time being, lets see what happen next.

Can recycling = $58.1 

Put my heavy duty Singer thru it's paces and leaning how to sew. Bags for our fishing reels

Apples, soon

Tumby Bay silo art

The last voyage before selling. 

Replaced roller on trailer.

Friends of Southern Parks working bee - planted tree watering at Donnington light house enclosure

Dropped in Richardson Shack Site to check and pick up any rubbish. 

We will have some red Delicious on our return from Thailand

SA water have been busy the past few months, pressure regulating 

Good to go on holiday's

And we are off! Tod River in the foreground