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Once again at the 5th lookout, there was another gate and again we had a short look around, and from here we could see some sea lions sunbaking, ignoring us above watching them. When we reached the end of the boardwalk, we walked down the stairs to the beach, where Sam stopped and waited for all of us to join him. “We actually walked in the reverse order, the owners are planning to have the visitors arrive at this end of the beach, and walk up the stairs we just came down, and finish up at the g
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Everything came through the main central hole, before the cover went on
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As the end of the school day came to a close, I was at the school to pick them up, and we quickly stopped at home, to allow the boys to change out of their uniforms, which we left at the unit, and we headed north to Louth Bay. “Where is this place we are camping at Mr Langton?” Jake asked and I looked at Tom through the rear vision mirror and smiled. “We thought we would keep it a big surprise for you, so you will have to wait and see” Tom said answering his mates question for me, and Jake looke
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“This is the first crate we need, it has the support posts and struts and ground floor flooring for half of the house” Jack said and his boys jumped up and began pulling out the first sections of the house, and slowly we were able to unload the crate and transfer its contents onto the quad bike trailers, and by lunch time we had one crate empty and its contents down in the cavern, and another crate half empty, with its contents near the central hole ready to be lowered down. I could see that it
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Book 1 - New Beginnings Book 2 - New Direction and now, the next and last book of this story... Book 3 - A New Chapter Coming very soon...
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The next morning, Tom and I were up early, having packed for the weekend the night before, and we arrived at Louth Bay just before 8am, and we only waited a few minutes before Jack and his sons arrived. We loaded all the deliveries onto the barge, along with Tom and my luggage, and Jack’s vehicle, and we made our way over to the island. We started on the biggest item on the barge first, that being the staircase, and we used both quad bikes and trailers to slowly and carefully get it up to
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Thanks for writing this story. I enjoyed it very much, even though it has some difficult events in it. Regards Q
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Once I had unpacked the car fridge and loaded the washing machine with all my dirty clothes from the weekend, I made a light dinner, and watched some television. Tuesday and Wednesday seemed to drag on forever, I was missing Tom enormously, and only the daily text message from him, eased the loneliness slightly. On the Thursday morning, I was happy because I knew that Tom would be home this evening, and I eagerly set off to work, and leaving when I was stopping work for my half hour lunch
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While Amos and Lloyd dug the holes for the support poles for the ablution block and shed, Jack, Tom and I started to put together the eight walls for the gazebo, which started to take shape quickly. By the time, Jack’s sons had completed digging the holes and concreting the posts into the ground, all the walls for the gazebo were in place, and half of the roof was on. When it was time to stop for lunch, the gazebo was completed, and posts were in the ground for the 125 metres of boardwalk
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As I suggested, they had brought the upper level forward by 2.5 metres, the depth of the building was a metre shorter at 6 metres, and the rooms were made slightly smaller than we had designed, but still a lot larger than standard rooms in a home. The house is divided into three sections on both levels, determined by the three tunnel entries, with the upstairs first section having 2 master suites, with walk in robes, separate bathrooms, and a small entry lounge each, there is also main lounge ro
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Tomorrow, Everything Changes
quokka commented on JayT's blog entry in Randomnicity (aka Jay's thoughts)
Good luck with the move mate, I hope that it all goes smoothly for you. If this helps, here in Australia, some people in remote parts of Australia, have to travel for an hour or two, just to get to the nearest town, and that can be by 4x4, helicopter or by plane if the roads are cut off with the rains cutting off the roads. Its all just part of the challenge of life, Chin up mate and all will get better eventually. Regards Q -
Like in Tears of Neko, I found this story just as moving, and the author does a wonderful job of making the reader is inside the story, with such detail with everything. Thanks Crafting Mom for another wonderful story. Regards Q
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Although I found it a heartbreaking story, it is one that I really enjoyed, as well as the follow up story. I wish to congratulate Craftingmom, on a wonderful story. I look forward to reading a lot more of your stories. Regards Q
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The next stage was to get the tree down onto the hole below, but first we had to lift the dingo out of the way, we still needed it to fill in the hole, so with some ropes we managed to lift it out of the hole and over to the side of the sand bank. Next, we carefully attached straps to the tree, and winched it off the trailer, and with a bit of manoeuvring, we had the root ball of the tree over the hole, and we slowly lowered it down into the hole. The nursery had wrapped most of branches a
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“I figured that we could bring the building supplies for the house at the same time as the gazebo and toilets, to disguise its purpose, oh and I think we will need a lean too shed for the two bikes and trailers too” I added. After we had eaten lunch, we packed up the campsite, I parked the bikes in the end of the beach, where they are mostly out of sight, and we put some branches over them to hide them, before we drove vehicles onto the barge, and made the journey back to the mainland. After
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After a fair amount of silence, I glanced over to Tom, to find that he had fallen asleep, I smiled and just watched him sleep for a while, before I went to the car to grab the book that I had brought with me. Tom woke up about an hour later, when I was making a cup of tea, and I made one for Tom as well. Afterwards we walked up to the top, to find the whole roof and two walls of the main shed removed and stacked in piles, I was amazed at how fast they had worked, and Tom and I started to c
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After a late breakfast on Saturday, Tom and I drove up to the township of Louth Bay, a twenty - minute drive to the north, where I had chartered a boat for the day, yesterday after work, I had gone to the local hardware store, to get supplies. At the hardware store, I purchased some more steel pickets and a second hammer, which I loaded onto the boat, along with an esky of drinks and snacks, plus the kit bag of abseiling gear, and we made the 5 -kilometre journey to the island. Once there,
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Under protest, I showered and changed into fresh clothes, and Tom did the same after me, while Lucas, Marie and Sam unpacked the car, piling all the camping gear in one heap in the dining room. “Now once again, what are you doing here? I thought you would be back at your own homes” I asked of my three friends. “Well yesterday afternoon, after you guys set off for home, we decided that we wanted to do some sight-seeing while in this wonderful state, so we caught yesterday afternoons flight over,
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Great story mate. I was close to tears on many occasions, the story is very well written, and I hope to read some more stories from this author. Regards Q
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By the time, we had left the southern island, we had been away for nearly three hours, as headed in a south westerly direction, instead of westerly back to Port Lincoln. Paul pointed to the front of the boat, as he was steering, where I noticed a large ice Esky, which I opened and found a container full of sandwiches, which I handed two over to Tom, as well as a cold can of soft drink, before doing the same for Paul and myself. By the time we had finished eating lunch, I noticed another is
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In fact, at the time that the prosecution has given as the time of my client’s great uncle’s passing, my client was on the Indian Pacific train, having just left Broken Hill, and he was seated in the dining car eating dinner” Sam said with a smile, and the prosecution lawyer looked really annoyed, knowing he had lost the case. We waited while the magistrate looked at all the information that Sam had presented, and when he finished he looked at the other lawyer, “It is my belief, that Mr. L
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I had spoken to Sam and Lucas before leaving PNG, they informed me that they were both in Cairns, and that Lucas has all the tickets from the train and flights, since leaving Perth, however the Police had seized all of my luggage, and I was told they would be waiting for me at Cairns airport. Before touching down, I explained to the boys that some bad people were trying to get me into serious trouble, and that I needed to talk to the police to sort it out. I said to them that the lawyer fr
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Because it was removed, and then temporary lost. Plus I have had a few requests for it to be put back up.
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We stopped on top of Imita Ridge and soaked in the atmosphere of the place. We were told that during the war, Imita Ridge was our last line of defense, the line was drawn in the sand here, there was to be no further withdrawal. We climbed 550 meters down Imita Ridge into the beautiful Guayule Creek area, which took us almost three hours. Here we had to take our boots off and put on our adventure sandals to cross the creek 22 times. About an hour later, after the creek crossings we put our
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Thankyou all the info about the Kokoda trail, is fact. my grandfather was also in the 21st Brigade at Kokoda.
