Bamaga Bamaga Bamaga

Bamanga-3rd time now.
James and I went up to do this job,Starting to get the hang of this. Just popping down the road to do some work, 1,000km away. My home range is massive.

Lunch time swim to wash the sweat & red dust off. Umm, hoping there's nothing else in the water. 

found a heap of the tools and things i left in the shipping container up here, I been looking for these, going I'm sure I had that the other day now it's gone. They were all up here. Went through the stuff I left before Christmas, looking at everything going ahaa, aha aha, here they all are, was so funny, lots of Christmas presents

Must be spring up here, Mare and foal doing well.

Wet season, just enough rain for Good times, Lots of grass and foals the mare look a lot happier than last time. 

We are Installing heat exchanger's in the roof, yes back in the same roofs I was in back in December, utilising the old existing duct work from the big old package Air con, cutting big hole to lift the giant 200 kg units up.  Went to see my mate at the shipping yard, he has the heat exchangers there, made a great deal with him for a  couple of cartons of beer, which the boss sent up on the boat, to drop them off, lift them into roof and remove old giant package Air con, using another new friend who owns a big Manitu fork lift. The building contractor was worried about the machines ripping up his freshly made lawn and path, this Manitu stood on the other side of the section with it's outriggers down, and reached out over 10m to pluck the heavy old unit out, was very cool to watch and didnt even drive on the bloody lawn..

The heat exchanger unit takes cool stale air form the rooms, runs it past fresh air from out side, reclaiming some of the cold, cooling the fresh air, and delivering it to the rooms using the existing duct, and expels the stale air. Great idea, hard work for us to install, but here we are at the tip of Australia and getting paid to be here. I love it.

Just when me and James had the job figured out the 2ic came up to check out our progress and make sure we knew how to do it, he brought another helper with him, Pierce who I worked on Thursday Island with, and told me I'm going to Cairns tomorrow, Friday, and Weipa on Monday to put 90aircons into a new mining camp, all Donga buildimgs ( accommodation blocks ) just like ATCO days. The factory I worked at in Brisbane for 3 years doing Air con's in Donga buildings for the mines, now I'm going to be at the mine.

So leaving James with it, I think he knows more than he lets on. He's happy because he'll be there to share the beer coming up on Mondays boat, and I missed out, damm.

Flying in -Rainforest mountain ranges north of Cairns, Daintree I think. 

Dry bushlands north of cooktown, the cape. 

I reckon this one looks like Varillia point, where we stayed for a week last season. 

Works finished for the day, time to cool off. Woooo!

Seisha jetty, looking towards Torris Strait, Thursday Island. 

Better do some work. Job #1 - In Umajico 

Look Dad, we made a hole! 

A rare sight in oz, the big Palm Cockatoo, only in the north. 

Job #2- In  Injonoo 

A majestic painting at the local takeaway/restaurant. 

Umajico beach. 

Quick stop for lunch, 2min from Umajico job. 

Umajico 'a magic place'

Just 20mins from Injinoo job. Finished early on a Sunday and went for a swim @ the cypress (Jacky Jacky creek, fresh water & no crocs. ) 

Actually managed a day off, so went for a drive to explore some of the long red roads. 

Mutee Heads beach. 

Another swim @ Mutee Heads beach, never mind the croc warning signs. 

Job #3 new Mapoon. Saved the hardest one till last.