Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

I do quite a bit of travel around WA while doing my job, and I get to see a lot of interesting places that a lot of you wont get to see. I though I'd make a sort of blog-like thread documenting where I go and what I see and do

I wold use google maps, but it does not show a lot of the back roads that I use.

17-10-08.

Travel from Kalgoorlie to Rig 3 at Norseman, then to Rig 2 at Southern Cross via Hyden Road. Around 600km of travel today. 350km of that on a pretty rough gravel road. Never been on this road before. Came across some interesting stuff though.

Went flying past this strange looking thing in the middle of nowhere, decided to turn around and go and have a look at it.


Turns out to be an old water storage place. When it rains the water collects on the tin and flows into a concrete lined pit.


A 100km later, I came across a paddock all by itself, surrounded by scrub - must have been an old townsite stock paddock or something, there were some very old abandoned mine workings a couple of k's away. Just seemed very out of place for the countryside I was travelling through.

18-10-08.

Rig 2 Southern Cross to Rig 6 Ravensthorp. Easy 400km today, spent 5 hours working on Rig 2.



Some more old mine workings.

.. thanks OBO.... what are they drilling for... or just surveying?

Rig 2 is drilling for gold around the edges and underneath old pits.

19-10-08

All today was spent with Rig 6, repairing their ute and trucks.

They are drilling for Lithium

keep 'em coming, bob, love the pics.

was one of those supports the in water pit buckled?

OBO, if you happen to have your camera when the wildlife is out I really love that kind of stuff. Open spaces and wildlife is why I love boating so much.

I'll see what I can get BRB. There was a snake the other day, but by the time I'd managed to slow the 3.5 tonne cruiser down and turn around it was gone.

Yeah Steve it was The whole wall was moving, I'd assume water has been getting behind the cracked walls. Most of the movement seems to be in the bottom broken section. I used to work underground, and I am still amazed at the power of the rock to move.

20-10-08
Got a call that Rig 1 at Boddington was broken last night, so off I go at 6 am
Ravensthorp to Boddington, a bit over 430k's. Found that I need a part from Perth 150km away - got there, and it was the wrong part. Driving around Perth in peak hour, looking for a place you dont know, in a landcruiser = much fun...not. Ended up finding it just before shops closeing time, and back to Boddington. Part fitted, and finished the day at 9pm. Around 750km travelled today.

Found this on the way through wagin

Does that count as wildlife?

Great pics OZ

21-10-08

Today spent in Boddington working on a couple of utes mostly. The scale of this place is amazing.

Spot the Rig




Sorry about the width of the photo's - they loose their visual niceness if I take too much more off.

Love the pictures OBO, that quarry could hold a lot of fish.

Fresh water too, but full of copper

See if you can get a bit of lithium to throw into your fishtank. Lithium is a great mood-stabiliser, it will stop your fish getting depressed.

.... too late for the fish... take it yourself OBO...

Brings back memories OBO, I grew up in Tuetonic Bore(60kms nth of Leonora.) We did a lot of exploring and came across a lot of obscure stuff in the middle of nowhere.
I know one thing, we have it easy compared to what the pioneers of our (settled) country had to deal with.
More pics please.

That is a big sheep. Trying to resist the urge to make a NZ joke.......darn...fush



Sorry its passed.