Getting out of upside down helicopters to shake the money tree......
03 July 2017 | Perth, Australia
Been a while since I posted anything, I've been getting the boat through the Australian import bureaucracy and doing some work to pay for it, surprisingly enough, all the import stuff was pretty easy, but thats only because Mandy the lovely customs lady done most of the paper work for me, well, done all of the paperwork for me! so thank you Mandy, your a star.
So, where have i been since I got to Brisbane? spent two weeks working at the Karratha Gas Plant on the north west coast, its where I was working before I went to India last year, ha! could only manage one trip, it was a shocker. It was great to catch up with mates but that was about it, maybe I'm just allergic to working.....
Anyway, I'm going back offshore to work for 3 weeks tomorrow, to an FPSO which is like a big oil tanker that is anchored in one place and pumps oil from manifolds on the sea bed and off loads to normal oil tankers, its pretty much like a big old petrol station in the ocean, I've been in Perth for the weekend as I had to redo the helicopter escape thingy, hence the photograph, fingers crossed the only time I'm going to doing that is training in a swimming pool!
I'll start sailing again after this trip, heading North to the Whitsunday Islands/Airlie beach, it'll be good to get going again, see if I can remember what on earth it is I'm meant to be doing..........