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I am really enjoying this story keep up the great work Regards Quokka

Great story Just one tiny thing, in the last paragraph u say sunset Is that meant to be sunrise?

G'day mate Great start, I look forward to the next and future chapters Regards quokka

G'day Graeme Well done mate, I have thoroughly enjoyed the series, shame that the bulldogs won the AFL this year, lol. I look forward to reading more of your great stories. Regards your fellow Aussie Quokka aka Scott

Hi again Lumber trucks do no exist north of Perth All tree lumber is grown in the south of the state and trucked to one of three main ports - Bunbury, Albany and Esperance. Trucks heading north passing Wubin, would be mostly carting mining equipment, or supplies to northern towns.

With a is a good sized town and it has a large police station Leinster is actually a small price mining town with Leonora and willing being the nearest police stations

Hi again Just one point in this chapter I travelled on the Indian Pacific two years ago from Sydney to East Perth. First stop is Broken Hill Second stop is Adelaide Third stop is Cook An the last stop is Kalgoorlie

Hi again I too am Western Australian born and bred and guilderton is in the shire of my home town of Gingin. The flight from just south of guilderton would mean flying over Gingin airport, which is controlled by the RAAF base Pearce, which is restricted flight zone, with their own radar on base. It would have been better if he had turned inland from just south of Geraldton. Flying over the Darling ranges from Guilderton would have put him near Toodyay just east of Bindoon. 50 miles south of Northam is just south of York and north of Beverley, which is rich farming land and not dry grazing land which I must point out is farming too, plus there is lots of farm buildings in that region. Out near Merredin is where it starts to get drier. And even then it is good cropping land, the region is known as the wheatbelt district.

Hi again Just one point on this chapter Rock lobster season in Western Australia starts in mid October and ends at the end of June. This varies sometimes depending on the natural breeding season each year.

Another great chapter Just a couple small things 1: Gudday is used as a greeting when first meeting not as a farewell, usually we say (see ya around it see you later) 2: The term for sheep shearing I spelt as I just wrote it not with two Ed's 3: The main house on a farm is known as a homestead, not a ranch house. Regards quokka from Australia

WOW !!!! What an awesome story, this is by far now my most favourite story on GA, (Sorry Circumnavigation, you come a close second now). Thankyou for this great story, and if their is a sequel coming, I am very much looking forward to reading it. Thanks again to you and your editor for an outstanding job, definitely worth an award. Kind Regards from Down Under - Quokka

Thankyou for all of your wonderful your birthday wishes I am deeply touched that you all care :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

Loved the story

Well done mate, great story. i look forward to the next one.

I thoroughly enjoyed this story. Thanks for writing it. keep up the great work...

its a great start im enjoying the story and look forward to the many chapters to follow

Great story. Looking forward to the next chapter. keep up the good work.

great story very sad, but I am enjoying. hope to see another chapter real soon. keep up the great work.

Great start. can I ask what country you are basing this story ?

Chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 4 what happened to chapter 3 ?

some dates all over the place.. is that intensional??? or errors??? Quokka

Wonderful story, enjoyed it so much. Thankyou.

Wow thats sad. is there any followup to this story?

I have been writing short stories since my mid teens, sadly all of my original stories from back then have been lost, i guess i began writing as i found it to be a way to escape from my world of worries, pain, depression and anxiety. Now with a far different world from back then, when i use to use writing pads and pen to write my stories, then in my early adulthood moved up to using a typewriter, and now using my laptop computer, my stories have changed dramatically. Thankfully with the world of internet, i discovered Gay Authors and after a few months of hesitation i registered to become a member in mid Janurary 2014, then did nothing on GA for a few months, but continued to write, tossing up if i should or should not pupbish them on GA, i was very uncertain if my stories were good enough for a site like this. Although I am gay, none of my stories had any gay characters or theme to them, and i felt very uncomfortable and uncertain how to do this, eventually i was able to review my first two stories and give a hint one character in the story being gay, and in mid April 2014, the first chapter of my first story was submitted to GA and I anxiously waited to hear if it had accept, meanwhile a second story i had been working on, i also submitted the first chapter and once again waited. when i saw that my stories had been accepted and were now published, i was so thrilled, i wanted to yell out loud "I am an online published author", but sadly i could not do that. Over a year has passed now, and at that time of writing this blog, i have completed 19 stories, 2 stories are on hold and one story is currently in progress, the shotest story being 1 chapter and 2,109 words long, while the longest stories are 11 chapters and 51,437 words plus 15 chapters and 46,444 words long. In the past 14 months Iv'e written a total of 22 stories, totalling a massive 381,048 words. Not bad for a fairly new author. Especially considering that iv'e had learning difficulites all my life, both socially 7and educationally, with mild dyslexia diagnosed in early adulthood, hense the reason for alot of spelling and grammical errors etc. I hope to continue to write and publish on GA, all i ask is that readers not be too harsh with my writing as im doing most of this on my own with out Beta readers or Editors, because with the many times that ive asked for assistance, no one is prepared to help me long term. Cheers for now. Quokka

Well done CM