Well it won’t be long till we move on from here, so I thought I would add a few photos of the last week or so.
Chris is back working 6 days a week at the moment, so this has given me a chance to sort through photos and add more posts, however his work finishes at the end of the month. We intend to look at working in the grain belt area, further south, for a couple of months, when we leave here. I think we have had the best of weather and work in the last 6 months. Driving a road train and doing such long hours, takes its toll and chris is starting to get tired.
We have been given a finish date of 31st oct, for copper drivers, which, includes Chris, as the company’s contract ends. Temperatures are getting up around the 40deg most days and it will soon be cyclone season here, and I’ve no desire to hang around for that. This last week has been quite windy and bushfires have closed roads past Marble Bar, going into the mines.
This also causes a threat to the drivers, as well as down time for both the drivers and their company. Chris and others spent 2 days blocked in at Telfer mine this last week.
Another reason to move on…..
I have really enjoyed our time here. Mostly because of the contrast in landscape to that of the eastern states. The ever changing piles of salt in town and the busy port, with it cargo ships and tugboats. Trucks and trains run 24/7. The place never sleeps. Going into town, you usually have to wait at the railway crossings for the locomotives to go through, pulling around 260 carriages.
Takes around 5 minutes for them to go past, depending on speed. 
Chris often counts them! Parking and shopping is easy, there is both Woolworths and Coles /Kmart stores. The South Hedland aquatic center is one of the best we have been to, we use the pool a couple of times a week. Gina Rinehart, has painted one of her trains pink, in support of breast cancer, which has been a good talking point. October is breast cancer awareness month, so what better way to finish off this post, than to say we are living life in Jodies memory. 
Will catch up when we get on the move again…. till then may good health be with you all.
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