Mt Arapiles

Another day in the office

Here I am in another transmission site. Just another day in the office.


Here I am standing at the AM transmission mast (the photo doesn't show), which is about 185 meters high. As shown in the photo, I am holding a grounding rod to ground the mast. The transmitter has been switched off. Look at that SPARK !!!.

Omeo

This time I was officially in the high country town.

I was up at Omeo for work, a tiny little town in the Victorian Great Alpine region. It's not very far from the snow field during the winter season. The population of the town is ... I am not sure. I was there was there for 3 days and 3 nights, and I probably had only seen less than 10 people roaming around the streets. By the looks of it, it is a dying town. What a pity, it sure is a beautiful high country town.

The three photos show Omeo town, it was a cool morning. Look at the heavy fog at the mountain top.

Here I am up at Mt. Livingstone summit. The background shows the heavy fog trapped between the mountain valleys at 7:30am.

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Horsham

One thing great about being in Broadcast Engineering is the travelling in the vast country side of Victoria. Here I am driving back from Horsham, and came across a Giant Koala. Nothing much about it, just a small restaurant / cafe along the Western Highway. But it certainly made a few tourists and me stop by.



Here is Mt Zero from a distance. I didn't drive up close because I was rushing home to see my family.

Mt Lawloit (in Nhill)

Here I am in Nhill working with a few engineers from Broadcast Australia. I have been working from midnight to 6am, and after 4 hours of morning sleep, the guys and I are back on site to continue the work.

This is how it looks at the back of the site. Just one big flat land.

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Loy Yang power plant

This is Loy Yang power plant, located just at the outskirt of Traralgon, Victoria. I had been working at Mt Tassie for a few nights and decided to pop in for some sight seeing. The whole area is just filled with coal. It would be so much better if the government invested its money into cleaner energy resources.

Rosebud beach

Today is Australia day. The sun was shining bright. Not a cloud in the sky. At a forecast of 30degC, it's was beautiful day. The gang and I, along with the wives, had been planning for this trip down to Rosebud for a few weeks now, to hunt pipis. The day started about 11:30am.

We took a spot on the white sandy beach, just beside the bushes. Ground mats all laid out, and a few food snacks. As the 1st minute tick by, we realized we forgot to bring beach tent, beach umbrellas and a camera (hence no photo of the beautiful beach ... will be better organized next time).

Hunting for pipis was hard work, but fun. The water was shallow and relatively warm. With pails in one hand, and the other hand digging into the sea sand. Pipis here and pipis there, pipis everywhere. Some had Sea Anemones stuck to their shells. These Sea Anemones caused me (and Boon) a lot of work of removing them before cooking them.
After 1.5 hours of hunting pipis, the boys turned to fishing with fresh pipis as baits. We walked into the clear water about 100 meters from the shore to cast. The water level were up to our tummy.
Daniel caught a white flathead fish (about 30cm). Well done, Daniel!

The pipis were cooked into 2 flavours:
1) Garlic, lemon grass, red chillies and white wine.
2) Garlic, black bean and red chillies.
The flathead fish was steamed to perfection.

Warneet Jetty (13-Jan-2006)

Here we are ... at it again. We arrived at around 8:30pm. It's around 9pm now. The tide has been subsiding since about 7:40pm. Quite a few people along a jetty. We spotted one angler with a mullet in the bucket. Our was empty ... sigh!!! Bait used tonight were frozen pipis. Rig used on my rod was a pasternoster rig. The temperature was around 16degC.