John West Beware

My Apologies
Ok, I know I haven't written in some time, let me explain. I took an Army promotion course in NSW for a few weeks, it was fun, small holiday in Taree half way between Sydney and Brisbane on the coast. And since I've been back Centrelink have been making me do 'job search training', rolls eyes.

Happy Easter Everyone

I got back in time to go camping with some of my Vietnamese buddies over the easter long weekend. We headed down to Lakes Entrance, which is about 3-4 hours west of Melbourne on the coast. The highlight of the trip was catching my first ever fish, a 20cm + Brim. My mate Huy told me today was the day I would catch one after I told him I had never caught one after numerous attempts. Watch out John West, Wayne is coming! I was stoked about it. I still am just quietly. All up we caught at least 15 large fish and boy did they taste nice.

The Teamwork
We needed firewood, but there where no big trees around, hence small rotten wood that wouldn't last the night no matter how much we find. We decided to have a crack at chopping up a huge tree that had fallen over some time ago. Over 2 hours of chopping with a blunt axe. We managed to cut it 3 times to make two decent sized logs. We are talking about some serious 'fire power' here haha, excuse the pun.

We tried to carry it, but we could barely take it 15 meters, yet our campsite was 100m away. We tied the log up with rope to the back of a car and towed it, or at least we tried to. The rope broke like a shoelace, even though we tied it many times to make the rope stronger. It appeared our quest to burn this log was doomed. However, using my Army training, I remembered I just happened to have a stretcher in the car and we could use it to lift the wood easier. With 6 people, we were able to carry that huge log back to camp, which sustained us for 2 days. Great effort to everyone.

Lesson Learned
Don''t take a front wheel drive car over sand. With a few hands and a bit of digging we managed to recover dad's car relatively quickly, despite it not looking too good at the time.

I had a good time drinking and driving, not at the same time. Fishing, cooking, eating, chopping fire wood with my friends and cant wait for the next camping trip.

PS. John West, time to sell up because when I'm through, there ain't gonna be any fish for John West to reject. Peace.