Photos

This first picture is up the coast somewhere near Sunshine Coast

Second picture is a strange delta south of Rockhampton 

Third picture is taken in Rockhampton

Fourth picture is in Townsville, and the hangar says Hawker Pacific, I think.

Fifth picture is some of the hilly bits around Townsville 

Sixth picture has absolutely nothing to do with flying, and was an open-topped Cattle Train, which reminded me somewhat of the movie Australia.  Seemingly dozens of trailers full of steers.

Finally a picture of moi playing pool - or rather, aiming the sticky thing at one of the round things, jerking my arms spazmodically and even managing to miss the white ball.  HMM.

TTFN!!!

Here is day off number three.  I have been a very lazy blogger, and despite promising to blog as soon as I got days off... I haven't.  My first day off I spent doing very little, other than picking up one of my housemates from his final exam, and afterwards lying in the garden sunbathing.  We actually went to a place called the Breakfast Creek Hotel for lunch, having heard that the steak there is amazing.  The recommendation was correct - the steak was so tender and incredibly full of flavour.

Breakfast Creek Hotel is quite close to Brisbane airport - just a few miles - and aircraft actually route over it on track to land on Runway 01.  Believe it or not, there is a waypoint directly above the Breakfast Creek Hotel - and what is it called?  STAKE.  This is not a coincidence, apparently!

Yesterday was another lazy morning, trying to stay in bed as long as possible, followed by a BBQ at C's place.  They now live up North in an area called Murrumba Downs, as of about a week ago.  It was good to catch up, and we spent the afternoon and evening constantly eating, and then playing pool - while wearing his hat, I might add.  I started it - and then the winner of the game had to wear the hat... and pass it on to the next winner, etc.  The complaints about not being able to hit the balls straight while wearing the hat were frequent!

Today and tomorrow are my designated study days, which technically means that I shouldn't be blogging.  You are going to have to live a little while longer without pictures, as I haven't got the cable handy to plug my phone into my computer.  It's like a whole three feet away from me which is way too far when I am in This Sort Of A Mood.

TTFN!!!

More Flying

I took pictures!  Here is the first, of us heading into Brisbane from Emerald:

The sunset on the way to Gladstone:

And finally Brisbane at night on the final flight home... the long string of lights is a bridge heading to Redcliffe which is just out of the picture on the left.

Afraid there's nothing more interesting as I'm in the middle of training so I have to be thoughtful about when I take my phone out !

TTFN!

Off to Work

Off to work again - it's hard to find something to blog about when it's a case of get up, get dressed, go to work, come home, get undressed, go to bed... in a few days' time however I have 4 days off in a row so hopefully I get to do something fun and interesting to blog about!

In the meantime, keep smiling :)

TTFN

The Golden Orb

Well now, something a little more interesting than grocery shopping!  There was I, minding my own business, taking a break from studying, enjoying a nice light hearted episode of Mr Bean and slowly eating my last CCE, when I heard a shout from the the kitchen.  Come and geeeeet it!  Roast leg of insurance salesman bathroom. (sorry, I got carried away!) "Come and look at this!!!"  Dubious, as always, expecting to be told that I had left something lying around (not an uncommon occurrence), I headed towards the bathroom, still clasping the remains of my precious CCE.

Outside the window, hanging on a faintly yellow web, this is what I saw:

these pictures are stolen off Google as I couldn't wouldn't get close enough to it for my iphone to work out too well.

Well, to be brutally honest... I don't actually want to form any kind of a relationship with this spider.  Especially as Wikipedia also tells me that it eats small birds and such like! 

Wikipedia tells me:

Interaction with humans

These spiders do not seem to form either beneficial or harmful relationships with humans.

Well, to be brutally honest... I don't actually want to form any kind of a relationship with this spider.  Especially as Wikipedia also tells me that it eats small birds and such like! 


The particular specimen outside the bathroom window probably measures.... actually scratch that.  Myself and RM went and measured it properly.  Our technique consisted on putting a standard sized clothes peg (like those wooden ones) on the end of a long stick and approaching the spider from one side (avoiding its web).  Using this technique, the body measured approximately 2 centimetres, and its legs (all curved obviously) well overlapped the edges of the peg, maybe 1cm either side.


How I love the fact that the windows in my bedroom have netting on them!  Otherwise my room would NEVER be ventilated!  ...and I just felt an itchy sensation on my neck and almost had a panic attack.


SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Me Day

I have decided that today is a me day.  Already, today is almost over, but it’s been really good.  For a start, I haven’t done anything work related today.  It’s strange actually, because it actually makes me feel guilty!  

I must also make a confession.  I haven’t taken any photos since I got home from Auckland.  Therefore, I have no photos to share!  When I’m at work, I am technically supposed to be working, so I haven’t taken any photos.  When I’m at home, there isn’t really anything to take photos of (insert dangling preposition disclaimer).  

Today, I did very little.  I did some grocery shopping which could be classified as profitable, as this morning I looked in the cupboard and saw it was bare.  In fact, I have looked in the cupboard for the last four or five days and seen that it was bare.  This did not motivate me enough to do grocery shopping, but today I decided that as really I was running out of excuses, I should make myself at least somewhat useful.

Other than that... there isn’t really anything to blog about!  I could tell you more about the grocery shopping... but I’m afraid I could lose a lot of readers that way.  In fact, I’ll probably lose readers simply by blogging about a day in which I did nothing, although that is presuming that I have readers in the first place...  

So far I have flown for three days.  Three extremely long days, which have been pretty exhausting.  It’s all very full on, and a lot to process.  I think it’s finally coming together although there is still a lot of work for me to do - but not today.  

Tomorrow is a day off as well, although it will not be a me day.  Unfortunately, I must get back to the books and study for my last five days of line training followed by my line check on Thursday.  So much to do, so little time to do it in, so now I must get back to doing nothing!

Sorry to bore you with such an incredible post full of nothingness, but you wanted to hear something!  

If anyone wants me to blog about anything in particular... drop a comment and i shall do my best to fill you in!

TTFN!

Tired

I'm tired.  When I am tired, the order of priority is this:

Beer.

Chocolate.

Youtube.

Blog  bed.



GOODNIGHT!!!