I'm sure there's some other people in WA in the same boat as me, being stuck out at work no where near the water. Hanging out for the end of my swing, can't come soon enough, gonna head out as soon as I can. Hopefully these storms clear up and there'll be some good wind on my break. For now I'm resigned to day dreaming and watching a whole bunch of youtube while I should be working.
2 days in to my 14 day swing
Know how you feel. Though i managed to get a couple of days out on the water last r+r. Just managed to get out of perth before they closed the airport
Plane landed so hard on the tarmac that it popped 2 tyres and delayed the poor outgoing swing by 13hrs
Windsurfing MMX game gets me through the night shift
^^Had a landing at Koolyaknobbing (hehe) a few years back, in a skippers twin prop where we landed that rough a mate of mine craked a vertabrae in his neck. He had to be evacuated to southern X in a spine board and flying doctor'd out. Spent 18hrs lying on his back strapped to a board
Meanwhhile back at the airstrip, the plane overrun the strip went through a fence and up on to the main road. We all had to get out and push the thing back onto the runway!
Which site you on FireEngine? and what are you doing?
That session yesterday got me out of a trip up to Koolan
Out at Golden Grove, unfortunately I'm working in the office as a geotech at the moment so I have way to much time in front of a computer looking up windsurfing related stuff making my days go slower . Almost there though, out on thursday.
Heh heh, thats pretty much half the reason I quit my previous fifo job up north, I got to a stage where I was sitting there saying to myself every summers day up there "hmm this being up on site's no good for the windsurfing is it?"
So I quit, got a job down here earning a fair bit less than I was up there, and never looked back. It was definitely a lifestyle decision and it wasn't the only reason I quit but it was torture knowing that i was missing out on all the action back in perth.
geez you FIFO boys are a bunch of nancies these days
back in the old days of fifo, I used to have a landyacht out at the mine site for when I was on site. If the shift finished when a big thunderstorm was coming through , I would knock off and sail up and down the mine haul roads , out onto the Mt magnet road , or even cross country through the mulga.
I had an easy roster too , 30 days on 5 days off, not like the early pilbara ,3-6months on 1 week off(no pay)
there was one bloke brought a windsurfer rigged board out from Geraldton and we would often race on the runway
A land yacht?, that would have been great fun up there!
Im guessing the rules were a fair bit more relaxed in those days tho, if you tried that these days (sailing on the nice long haul road) I believe youd be enjoying an aerial view of the haul rd the following morn as you flew back to perth for the last time.
until the guys up at Bells site at Kal got done in court for breaching 13 day rule Scared the crap out of the rest of us, who then reckoned, ahh well one day off in 14 wont hurt too much I suppose
I really admire the people who started all those early mines like whaleback/tom price etc, it makes the sufferages of the modern day miner look like a life of luxury.
no aircon and 40 degree heat, no tv, shifts as long as the boss saw fit etc, worst of all, no one of the opposite gender
until the guys up at Bells site at Kal got done in court for breaching 13 day rule Scared the crap out of the rest of us, who then reckoned, ahh well one day off in 14 wont hurt too much I suppose
Im about to start a job fifo. It will be my first,
8/6 roster fly out Friday morning fly back the following Friday night.
Shouldn't be too bad for sailing, I need the money more than I need to sail.
