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Merry Christmas
Slightly late but - MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE - this is how my Aussie Xmas went....
After watching Bad Santa, which finished nicely at a few minutes to midnight i decided to go find some signal inorder to text the family back home an early Merry Christmas. On the way in the moonlit campsite i noticed some dark shapes hopping through the trees, knowing full well what they were i pursued for a photo. As the kangaroos grazed i crept in but even tho i got as close as 3 or 4 yards it was too dark to get a good photo so i let them eat in peace. After walking to the road and sending my texts i headed back to bed and was almost trampled by another kangaroo who shot across the pathway 2 feet in front of me. Between that and getting to the tent i saw two more kangaroos and a couple of possums who were still in a tree that some french campers fed them sandwiches in earlier on. It's been a good christmas so far and i haven't gone to bed yet.
Now in what may turn out to be the latest i ever get up on a Christmas morning we slowly got out of bed somewhere between 9 and 10am. After a quick who had done what recently we decided, democratively of course, that Woode would be cooking breakfast and so woke him up as we were getting hungry. Breakfast was more breakslow as it took almost 2 hours from start to finish, but we did pack the car for our big day out while the food cooked. At roughly midday we were ready to go to the beach, but not before i saw a Kookabura shoot through the trees.
Our chosen beach for Christmas day was called Eagles Bay in Dunsborough. It was a bit quieter than we thought it would be, but that didn't matter as the sun was high in the sky and our beer on ice. the first thing we did was set up our tent to store our beer and pull some Crimbo crackers to get everything started. Next we searched for someone to take a picture of us all in the sea, so we took our flip-flops off for a second before putting them straight back on before we burnt our feet on the sand. We managed to disturb a nice old lady's christmas who took our photo and was rewarded with a kiss from danny for her troubles. For the next few hours we played in the sea to stay cool, first with a fowm football (which unfortunately struck P-J in his balls, aaahhhh) When we were bored of that we grabbed the cricket bat and ball and proceeded to smack the ball out to sea where three of us tried to catch it. This game was so good the family near us who were playing beach cricket obviously realised it was a boring gsport and so copied us POM's hitting balls to sea. During this period i recieved a sharp pain down the side of my back which felt like a Jellyfish sting but i didn't see any so presumed it was all in my head.
We had lunch for about half an hour - with lunch consisting of beer, cider or pepsi and a bag of Shortbread biscuits to share followed by a bag of Choc chip fudge cookies, agian to share but i was very much against but it was christmas. We spent lunch discussing our favourite foods, which turned out to be a hard and inconclusive.
At the end of lunch Woode and I played catch with the tennis ball in the sea for 15 minutes before P-J and Danny joined us with the bat, so we returned to our previous game. Almost an hour of P-J hitting the ball too far to sea for Danny and Woode to catch had gone by when i retreated to shallower water which is when i noticed a large black shape glide past me. After shouting and waving for a few seconds for the others to to help me find it again P-J spotted something further down the beach, which was backed up by a lady on the sand spotting it and indicating to us where it was travelling. By this point Danny and Woode had swam near enough to hear what had happened and we all chased after the mysterious dark shape. Roughly 300 yards down the beach the others caught up, and confirmed what i had guessed after 200 yrds and given up chasing, that the black shape was some type of ray 1.5 metres in diameter. With all that excitment we decided to have another drinks break as Danny argued with P-J and Woode about the school of fish they saw on the walk back - Danny claimed there were at least a thousand fish as opposed to the couple of hundred the other two saw.
A couple of beers later we decided to have a go at the Aussie thing of playing beach cricket, but to make things more enjoyable for ourselves we bowled under arm and hit catchers only - with no runs scored with hits to the offside due to the two foot drop of sand from baech to sea level. A drop which Danny forgot all about as he dived for a catch and disappeared down the bank (without catching the ball!!) We did manage a couple of "great" catches, mainly by me as when it comes to cricket thats all i can do - and not to be out done by Danny i alsoe dove for catch which resulted in me sliding off the upper beach into the sea. Having played enough cricket we went for a swim to reomve the sand from our shorts, again with a ball so we wernt to bored out there. Danny, P-J and I performed some handstands in the sea and did dodgy wrestling moves to keep us entertained. This is when i stood on something in the sand that moved from under my foot - Another ray! a small sand coloured one this time. At first i was all "wow another ray" but then i remebered about the inch or so whip mark we found on my side where i was stung earlier and realised it must of been a sting ray mark my mood swung to "son-of-a-bitch, was it you who stung me earlier" and i tried to hit the ray with the tennis ball. This didn't work so we let it swim away with it's life in tact, and headed for dry land.
Back at our camp on the beach we informed Woode about the ray and started to finish off the last of our beer supply, as the sun descended behind the tree covered hill with it's million-dollar houses lighting up the shadows. This was when P-J decided we needed a picture of us all as the sunset, so he asked a guy sitting nearby if he would take a picture or two of us. Suprisingly the man agreed even after P-J told him we wouldn't be wearing any clothes for these shots - infact he got carried away and took 4 pictures using up our camara (sadly we have found out that he took NO pictures what so ever, so our asses will not be online, for now) Out of the four of us Danny was sadly the shyest, which may not of been helped by the family 150 yrds down the beach who gave a standing ovation to us in the middle of their cricket game - tho he says he was more concerned about his shorts not going back on.
I, however, used the oppurtinity to change shorts and decided to clean my sandy pair in the sea as an excuse to get a closer look at the lass walking up the beach. This is when i saw two HUGE fish in the shallows and with the use of my bare hands i managed to grab the pair of them during a manic struggle, before bounding up the beach to the others to show off my catch. They weren't as impressed as i hoped, something to do with the fact i caught two fish that were dead when i found them - so we took some pictures and i threw them back to sea and joined in withe thier conversation. About 20 minutes in to the chit-chat, with my back to sea, Danny burst out with "what the FUCK was that - it's a shark!?", not impressed i told him not to start bullshitting and get our hopes up - yet i still stilled turned around to make sure. Thats when i saw Danny's 'shark', "DOLPHIN" was the shout and we all sprinted to the ocean (i was slightly behind having regretted changing shorts and swiftly switching back) where a dolphin was zipping across the shallows. We gave chase for about a minute or so but those little fuckers are quick and we lost it in the dark. Deciding there was little light now nor anything that could top seeing a dolphin we packed up our camp and set off to ring our family and friends.
A couple of hours or ringing and driving we returned to our campsite with half an hour of christmas left. P-J went straight to sleep, Woode set his tent back up (on his own) as Danny and I went to put some things in the fridge and look for kangaroos. We managed to get split up as i hunted for a picture of a small kangaroo and danny followed another in the shodows. He came to get me to look at his kangaroo, which i agrred to after he scarred mine away. We both crept slowly to the grazing mother kangaroo that Danny had found with a Joey in her pouch. Spotting a great photo op we got as close as we could and at about 5 yards off with the camara poised to shoot we heard some rather loud thuds coming towards us in the dark. Ahead of us at aout 10 yrds was what we presumed to be Daddy-Roo, he was Huge. "that's one scarry kangaroo" as we simultaneosly took a big stride back. Not to be deterred we crept back in to about 3 yrds and i finally got a good picture of a wild kangaroo - unfortunately it wasn't the big one nor did i get a shot with the joey in but you could actually see a kangaroo! In the excitement i dropped my phone and scarred off the kangaroos so we decided to hit the sack.
Well that was my Christmas day and it was awesome. Never in england did i manage to see 9 Kangaroos, 2 Possums, a Kookabura, 2 types of ray (getting Stung by one) and see a wild Dolphin. All i hope is all of your Christmas' were just as good. Thank you for reading this far and Have A Great NEW YEARS
David
Cars and Money
Hello one and all. Thought i would write a little something to brighten your day. We decided to go to Perth last weekend to view the cricket and what a game it ultimately turned out to be - unfortunately for us Holly went pop 50 miles before we got there, now when i say pop i mean, CLICK---Click--CLICK-CLICK-CLICKCLICK-BOOM. It was fatal! so instead we spent the weekend in a town called Mandurah (man-jur-ah) and went car shopping. Mandurah seemed a nice little tourist spot but we focused on getting a vehicle so we could get back to Maragret River to work so we could afford the car. We managed to get a Ford Falcon station wagon which drives slightly better than Holly (who we sold to a wreckers yard for $50)
We are now back in Margerat River and happy with our purchase even tho it has seriously dented our spending power, that with work stopping for 2 weeks for Christmas, we are now officially Poor! BUT let me stamp any thoughts of us returning out of your heads - IT AINT HAPPENING
For all those wishing to send money to us i only have my account details on me but will give the money to whoever it was sent to - i'm not sure what everyone's banks policy is on transferring money abroad and some may charge so make it a large sum so it's worthwhile! or contact each other and send it in one big sum.
bank details removed for security reasons - if you need details contact Jacqui on jacqui_robinson24a@hotmail.com
Hope to hear from you all soon, if your not one of the 200 odd we will call on Christmas day than sorry and have a Very Merry Christmas (in the cold)
David
We are all to busy doing nothing, please come back later
Hello all you beautiful people, and the ugly ones aswell wudnt want to leave you guys out! hope ya'll doing good! We are all grand with the exception of a Mr Goode who has unfortunatley hurt himself hey! but enough about him im sure he will tell ya about it some other time! i aint said anything proper for a while so i'll try n get ya up 2 date, here goes.....
We have all been working really hard!
well that wasn't as hard as i first thought hey
ok we have been doin some other stuff as well but as my memory is as good as a tennis racket with no strings the details will be a lil sketchy things we have done (tho i will let david fill in the missing bits later)-
numero uno - Wine tour: we all ventured on a wine tour on saturday (the night before we all went out n got drunk to get ourselves ready for the day ahead, in which i crowd surfed at the local bar) at the suggestion of the canadian girls we work with, so we all booked it, aswell as with another couple who work wit us, and got picked up outside our campground! unfortunatley (or not hmmm) the canadians were on a different bus to the rest of us. Now this is where my memory gets a bit foggy but there is an explaination, we went to some different wineries around margaret river, we got free tasters of several wines at each one, five tasters equaled a glass of wine and there were usually 10 tasters at each one but luckily for me the other three didnt like wine, so they tried abit and gave the rest to me so i was having three times as much as everyone else, hense the memory loss! we also went to a brewery and tried 7 beers and a chocolate factory (where i ate NO chocolate) n a cheese factory, all in all it was a great day out!
numero two - Xmas BBQ: we had the annual christmas bbq with work on friday, i say annual but to be fair our boss has only had the busines up and running 6 weeks so technically it was the first ever works christmas dinner. We had the bbq at the local park and the boss xupplied all the food and beer and cooked, what a guy, the food was good, the beer better and it was a good summers christmas bbq! Danny challenged one of the canadians to a drinking contest, and lost dispairingly the big wuss, so i may have to bring some pride back to us Poms and enter into their rematch on friday!
numero three - Cricket: we bought a cricket set and have set out on the mission of being better than the poor excuse of a cricket team we call england! but just like them we suck, we play at the local school with some kiwis who told us they couldnt play which is aload of bull as they are quite good! we also plan to goto the perth ashes test and meet up with the barmy army, unfortunatly it is sold out but they do have a big park that we can go and watch the cricket on big screens, which will suite me better as i have lost ma glasses, whoops, so i may be able to see what is goin on! we also have monday off work just incase it does go to the fifth day and then we can get tickets!
well i think thats about it, which probably means i missed a hell of alot of stuff out but hey ho thts what the other guys are for!! but before i say goodbye, which coincidently i just did, i will just tell me ma i'm gone back to my old diet for me dinner - a tub of ice cream and a chocolate bar, just ike the good old days!
Good Bye
P-J
Quick Update
I am so pissed off right now, i just wrote a blog with loads of stuff about our weekend and microsoft has an error and i lose it all. Well i will put it up another time as it took long enough
On the bright side i have put up some photos and will hopefully put up a video of P-J lapdancing down a bus when i return to write up everything that happened before that!
Photos located in - Wine Tour, Desktop, You've been Snapped and For the Laydees
David - Annoyed with Bill Gates
p.s. Christmas will soon be upon us and like my compatriots many of you will be thinking "what can spend a large amount of my well earned money on for David's christmas present?" Well fear not for i have the answer! I would like you to donate it to a charity, but a charity i have become fond of since being here.
Many of you may or may not know there are lots of poisonous animals here that wish to harm the likes of P-J, Danny, Dave and I - and i'm sure your praying they will get there chance. But many will not know that people intensionally attack these creatures, AND THIS SHOULD BE STOPPED, which is where my charity comes in. If you could find it in your hearts at this joyful time of year to dig deep into your pockets and donate to a section of the Australian Wildlife Association known as the "Dangerous And Venomous Invertebrate Department - South Australia" and we can help protect these small man-killers. For Donations please view the forum for details - http://d1d2d3pj.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=39
Thanks Again - David
Say YES to operation DEPORT
Hey Gang
read my post on fans forum and join me in saying YES to operation DEPORT!
England Prevails!!
P-J
Woode - YOUR OUT OF LINE
Having read Mr Goode's last message i must say i am OUTRAGED at how he has spoken about P-J, there is no truth in the fact that the women he goes after require a pulse!!!
But seriously he has very good taste in women (or they choose him according to someone), and i would screen them anyway! unless he got really desperate
David
Top Up The Alcohol
Since arriving in Rockingham god knows how many weeks ago we've had a severe lack of alcohol, this of cause was rectified over the weekend. Friday night, the end of the working week so what better way to spend it than playing drinking games with the Canadian lasses from work and their German friend (I'd advise no one to atempt out drinking a German you will come off worse). All in all it was a good night, i would go in to details but its the same as usual P-J trying his luck with anything with a pulse and Danny skinny-dipping.
Now then Saturday night was weird but in a beautiful kind of way, it all started with a trip down to the local resturant. Well it would have been a trip if we had actually made it out of the Caravan Park, P-J an Danny were in their words mauled by hot lasses and dragged into the cabin they were staying in, me and Dave being oh so galiant and brave went in after them. This seemed like a good idea at the time but when there are 8 or 9 hot (drunk) lasses stuck in one small cabin it makes you wish you were deaf, the high pitched squeals are enough to make any sane man reach for the shotgun. Thankfully we solidered on like the Britishish are meant to do and competed in some friendly drinking games, of cause this turned up the volume even more and within an hour we where making our way to the local pub after being kicked out. To cut a long story short it ended up with more drinking, random acts of lunacy, little more drinking then sleep.
Sunday was the Red Bull Air Race up in Perth so we got up nice and early and drove for 3 1/2 hours just to watch the race for about 15mins, looks good on the T.V. Adverts but it gets very repetative quickly, so we ended up eating a KFC and playing some snooker before heading back. Now then how was your lots weekend?
Speak to you in a few months time when i blog again, Mr Woode
1 week down....
So we have completed our first full week at work. I found it great to get back to doing something each day and the work itself is enjoyable. You'll all be glad to hear tho that it rained a 1/3 of the time during the end of the week, and for those of you who do i say "HA at least its Oz rain" as it was still warm and if you looked close enough you would see some "POM's" skipping and singing most the time the rain fell.
Well its the weekend now and i think we have plans to goto a wine festival later this afternoon and maybe drive to Perth tomorrow for the Red Bull Air Race, so i best be going
David
Work Glorious Work
Hey There,
Its me the annoying one, as im sure you know we all started work in vineyards all across Margaret River. After years of searching for that complete no brainer job i've found it the hardest task so far is being able to count to 4 and to understand that "the top wire goes on the top clip" so now ive found the no brainer job i can live happily but after 30 mins i'm fed up and for the first time regret not paying any attention or doing any homework in my school days. "Give me a suit and a desk job" who thought they'd ever hear me say that???
Its not all doom and gloom though its only for 1 and a bit months and we get to go swimming in the lake on our lunch break, what do you do on your lunch?
Anyway my brain hurts from the early mornings, hayfever and strenious work out it recieves everytime i count to 4 so i leave you with a rather crappy blog about my first 3 days back in the hell hole that is work
Love you all equally (exept the ugly people)
Danny B
