What I did last summer
I took a few weeks off shortly after my last post and started by flying down to Melbourne with IronPaw and helping partially reassemble and drive a Landcruiser back to Brisbane.
Mostly uneventful (that’s a good thing when driving random unregestered vechicles a long way), we had to stop only a few times to adjust the fan shroud which was rubbing. We saw only 2 police cars on the Newell highway (2000+ kilometers), which was unusual as it was almost the pagan holiday and we drove across half the country. We swagged it in Gilgandra overnight and got into Brisbane early the next day, where 2 police cars drove behind us (in 40 kilometers), but neither noticed or cared about the lack of plates and registration on the car. And I thought for sure we would have our papers looked at.
Last week I went to Fraser Island with Angry and SJ. The fishing was soft as there was a 2m easterly swell and 20 knot winds, but if you’ve been to Fraser (there’s a few I haven’t yet convinced to come up – you know who you are) you know that it is awesome every time no matter the weather.
Angry made friends with a local snake who started licking his foot when he was cooking dinner, which we now know was a Acanthophis antarcticus, or Death Adder.
I played probably 20 hours of Scarface in between, good stuff.