Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Bushabout - Port Hedland - Brother Linden's place

We departed Cape Keraudren in the rain, all the way to Port Hedland pretty much. It was good to see, but it rained for four days and heavy at times. Plus it was cold and the Webasto (diesel fired heater) would not fire up. Found out we need to run it hot to DE-coke occasionally.











Yeah! Linden's been waiting ages for me to get here to help put together his new bird cage!




Linden & Sally's boys







Sally, Nola ,Ian's better half and ofcourse Sue. Ian & Nola are touring Australia in their caravan on a working holiday. Nola is a nurse and Ian will do anything.


Oh Well every one's happy with my cooking!!

Next up Kid's sport day and a West Coast football star is in town, a big occassion.












Even the locals got a work out.

It's time to cook again for the Philippines Independance Day Celebration. About 130 people expected.


Just making sure it's dead!




Four hours later the pig is cooked, plenty of crackling!

It then took two of us 2 hours to carve.

We made it on time, and more food than they could eat!


How ever they booze was a bit light on towards the end of the evening.


National costume. The Metro Manila AIDE are every where in Manila as street cleaners








Shakin! it out on the dance floor!

It was great spending time with a full fledge work shop and all sorts of tools. Got heap of little project done. Webasto de-coke will be waiting for when we return.

Tidy up Linden's back yard and see if we can fit our caravan in, the tape measure reckons it will fit. = JUST!




It fit's with 300mm to spare.



The bird cage should be completed when we return, if not it soon will be!

Off home to Thailand for 6 weeks via a few day's in Perth.

Overall Stat's

K's = 6,722

Avg Fuel cost = $1.92/ltr

Avg cost per K = 0.44cents

Ltr Per 100k's = 22.97

MPG = 12.3

K's per Ltr = 4.35

Black Top AVG speed = 75

Dirt Avg speed = 37

Gibb River Road AVg = 41.5kph

Kulumburu Road Avg = 25kph

CHEER'S!

G & S