the mission that was getting to groote eylandt

so i found a bunch of photos i forgot to put up earlier from the day we first flew into groote eylandt.

raynee below waiting outside vincent avaition at around 5:30am after one of the most hectic and busy days of my life thus far.
in a nutshell, friday the 30th april 2012 raynee and myself somehow did all this:

- worked my last days work delivering the blinds.
- filmed a day in the life with kris, stopped at two skateparks, drunk a beer or two
- got home to finish packing all our house up.
- found out we’d been stooged by the removalists.
- continued to pack the last of our stuff, ordered another storage unit.
- took another load to the tip to rid ourselves of the last of our junk.
- we then both packed all our house into my van in around 4-5 trips to the storage unit.
- finished that and drove to my parents house in parkdale to drop my beloved ki-ki off (my cat, she ended up moving to phillip island with my uncle)
- drove back to alices house in elsternwick, chilled for about an hour.
- got in a cab to the airport for a 12:45am flight to darwin.
- arrived darwin to find our tickets had been booked at the wrong time, missed connecting flight.
- bought new tickets from the tight ass vincent aviation.
and then finally at around i think 6:30 or 7am we boarded a twin engine, propellor driven plane to groote.
it was a long, drawn out massive nauseation of a day.
but we made it…these are the pics of the flight to our final destination, very tired souls!





archipelago
















even though the view out of the plane was great, the tiredness got to raynee and she crashed hard..












cool views from above!





                 another tired guy crashin pretty hard by the looks of things

by the time we came in for landing, i too had crashed hard.

more phone eyes &

there are sweet rides all over this place










im now working two jobs, one as a barman at the alyangula golf club, take out window above and friday night karaoke below, my ears hurt, then bled and then i felt a pain in my soul that i cant exactly explain. they "sang" at least ten in a row, no joke.











                      raynees mum has been flowing me phantom comics, haven’t read them
                      since i was a kid. occasionally you will get an awesome cell such as this.
                      more to come?
















i swear to you this burger was ten times over the worst i have ever consumed, but for the 25 dollars i paid for it the pain in my wallet made me eat the whole thing. bought from the dugong resort.

















for my second job im working at the school tutoring assistant indigenous teachers.
it is super challenging but rewarding on multiple levels.
here is a map of indigenous aus that is super awesome.
it is what i would call a real map of australia.







            an awesome sign in the school, and a multiple choice solution!












                         match storage in damp environments, not my idea.

















              another awesome sign, seen in the supermarket:












there are no railway crossings here, but they do have the equivalent dedicated to letting these bad boys pass. they drive up and down it all day and the tires are around 3 metres high which is hard to tell from this angle.
get an idea of the size of these things here.  funnily enough they are autos too.
i wanna get a job driving one so bad, it would be a step up from the van!

sun & moon

shot over a weekend on the yacht, temp sittin at around 26-27°C  ..cool breeze blowin’
you feelin me melbourne?
























i love a harvest moon, there’s another good one here



























no tripod needed ..moon bright enough

above: not the sun

iphone dump / mediocre banter

 

the pool at our resort, that ponyo looking creature emerging is actually raynee










raynee has also been blogging pretty hard, harder than me!
she started a blog called Eylandt Lyfe which is well, pretty self explanatory.
you should check it out by clicking the following WORD
it even has a picture of me when i caught a shark!  nice~1




one of my all time dream rides, dont know the year. but if im ever gettin a 4WD
  ..then make mine a vintage troop carrier.









so instead of the “stop the carnage” road toll/heroin toll of melbournes worst newspaper,
the newspaper in darwin (the name of which the eludes me) instead has the amount of croc captures in the year so far!
seems like they have it under control.














groote eylandt pride plates, hahaha









next post i think will be one on sunsets and moonsets? or moonrises?
is that even a thing??




as luck would have it, our resort as nice as it appears, double booked our other room and we subsequently got moved to the staff quarters, raynees face when she saw the size of our new telly was one of abhorrence and dismay, i felt bad for her.
we’re now living in a room that is basically built to house a bed.
oh and i got a job tutoring assistant indigenous teachers, ill most likely have more on that later.




until the next post, it’s curtains