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Going to bed a little earlier than usual, I soon fell asleep to the sounds of the rain on the roof, but was woken suddenly by the sound of the crack of thunder, and the wining sounds coming from Jack. I called him to jump up onto the bed and he settled down with his back against mine, and I was soon fast asleep again. The start of a new week was no different than any other day of the week on the farm, milking and feeding the animals, breakfast for Jack and me, then plenty of other farm jobs
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Backing the vehicle up to the tree, I climbed on the back with one of my new field motion cameras, and I put the strap around the trunk at about 3.5 metres off the ground, and after attaching the camera to the strap, I altered the direction slightly so it is pointing directly towards the gate, before activating it. Pulling out my phone, I connected with the camera, and marked it as front gate, and I was able to clearly see the front gate from my phone. Happy that I had can now monitor the f
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I had bought a telephone system that has two portable phones with rechargers, so that I had the main phone in the office, one portable phone in the kitchen, and I took one out to the shed’s maintenance area, and I was pleased that the coverage was still good from the house. I had bought a dozen six packs of beer while in Albany, and I handed a pack over to each of the men who helped me today, and thanked them very much for their great help. When they had all gone with just Loretta and Malco
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“That would be great thanks Loretta, but can we make it 10 am, so I can get all the main chores done, and the milking shed cleaned, and I tidied up?” I asked, “Yes certainly, that is fine with me, I will see you then, bye,” Loretta said before she hung up the phone. “While I was milking the cows that evening, I heard a vehicle arrive, but I kept going with the work, and moments later, Malcolm and Loretta appeared. “Hello, what brings you folk out this way this evening?” I asked my visitors.
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Since Grandad’s funeral, I have been so busy with learning to run the farm I have not had much time for anything else. The family farm consists of just 1,184 acres, of good pasture country, in the great southern region of Western Australia, with about 4 kilometres of river frontage of the Hay River. It is located 48 kilometres west of the City of Albany and 26 kilometres from the town of Denmark, and just 12 kilometres from the community of Youngs Siding, which is where I do my fortnightly
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Forced to leave home at the age of seventeen, soon after my parents learnt that I was gay, I worked part time while studying at university, until I received a brief text message from my older brother, informing that our parents were killed. I didn't bother to attend the funeral, since I had been rejected by the whole family. A few years later, I was informed that our grandfather had passed away, and that I was the only one to inherit the family farm, that I had visited many times during the holidays, and where I was the happiest when growing up.
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Glad to hear that all of my crew were now all safely on the Duchess, which is currently located in the Dover River on Cape Barren Island, my second phone call to Simon, was to give the order to set sail after dark for Bluff Harbour in Southern New Zealand, where I would meet them. I knew that it would take them approximately four days to get to Bluff, and in that time I planned to do a heck of a lot of travelling, to make it as hard as possible for anyone to track me down. Firstly I booked
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“Both he and our mother were killed, we later discovered by a drug cartel, and unwittingly we had taken the evidence of the drug smuggling with us, when I took over custody of my brothers, after their parents were killed. By the time that I realised that something was going on that looked very suspicious, they were starting to chase after me and my brothers, but thankfully we had this yacht to help us get away from them. Eventually we made it back to mainland Australia, and went to the Aust
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Not quite just yet mate...
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“Skipper, I recommend Anson’s Bay, it is about an hour south of where we are now, and it has a large lagoon, plus a river, if we need to stay out of sight for a while,” Nathan said when he reappeared a few minutes later, “thanks Nathan, I had come to the same conclusion, Anson’s Bay it will be, and hopefully with the huge swell that we have, we can cross over the shallow river mouth, without getting stuck,” I responded. Nathan stayed with me, as we continued to battle very strong winds and
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Back in the old days someone would order... Off with his Head.
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With a sizable bonus for the crew, we said farewell to our guests, and after they had gone, we got to work to start cleaning up the yacht, with me starting up the engines so the washing machine and dishwasher could be used. Jedd helped Jake with cleaning up the galley and dining area, while Neale helped me with the washing of the sheets and towels, and vacuuming the saloon, cabins and hallways, while Nathan washed down all of the outside decks and cleaned the windows. This took us most of t
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Yes, all shall be revealed.
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“Will you be joining us too Lord Edwin?” I asked politely, “Sadly no, I have to catch a flight back to Switzerland, then onto Edinburgh for business, but I want my friends to have a very good time while onboard your yacht, do you have any extra crew?” Edwin replied. “Yes my brothers are here also,” I replied. Once Edwin had left, with a bulky envelope in my hand, which no doubt contained a lot of money, I had Nathan give the guests a tour of the yachts guest areas, which is most of the star
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While Edwin is trying to help out with increasing business for Anton, he is not aware of the precarious situation he has put Anton in regarding the safety of Anton’s crew and yachts, with the threats still current. Which will become apparent in coming chapters.
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“Yes, and together we can have a larger slice of the cruise market in southern Tasmania. I am already negotiating with an existing yacht cruise company based out of Strahan that has two vessels and another cruise company based out of Hobart, and I have plans to start using the main yacht, for circumnavigation trips around Tasmania in 14 days,” Edwin informed me. “Well, I am sorry to ruin your plans, but I prefer to have the bookings managed in house, so the staff and crew all know what is g
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During dinner that evening, Edwin was often looking in my direction and gave me a smile every time our eyes met, which often made me blush a little. As well as Edwin and James, and all of my staff, there are also the four officers of the yacht dining with us, so it was quite a lively table. After a very enjoyable dinner, we thanked our host for dinner, and we all headed back to the island for the night, with a light shower, which had most of us fairly damp by the time we arrived at our cabi
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The middle aged man is not Lord Edwin, it is one of his staff.
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Two days after we had completed the boardwalk extension, with two sections leading to four metres from the waters edge, at thirty metres apart, Simon, his crew and I headed for Hobart onboard the Duchess, to pickup a purchase that I had made earlier in the week. After some research, I found a company in Hobart that builds floating pontoons, and I had ordered one that is to be three metres wide and thirty four metres long, and is secured with steel cables to the two concreted posts at the en
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Right idea, but wrong people.
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To clever for your boots Mr Anton-Cloche
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“That is great news that Vic and Rita are joining us, when will they be coming?” Sarah responded. “In about a week, once they have sorted out a few things back at their home in Canada. I am also in the process of trying to track down Toby and Alex, to see if they would like to rejoin the team,” I replied. “I know where they are, I have been keeping in touch with them. They are currently in New Zealand, working as tour guides,” Sarah informed me. “Excellent, get in touch with them please, an
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Just posted three photos on my album, first one in a farm near Northampton, the second and third are of Kalbarri
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By miracle, no one was killed or badly injured. shortage of supplies and builders will mean that it will take some time for everything to get back to normal in Kalbarri as well as in Northampton, which also receive a lot of damage, and is mentioned in this story.
