tumbleweed the extended australia trip

[crabmeat thompson]

all the best to your wife digger!

[swvic]

Same as ^, digger

You've given me a time extension for my rental fact finding assignment

In other news from around here, Autumn has delivered

[diggerdickson]

Anyone in esperance

[marauding mullet]

Anyone in esperance

Left there 5 days ago. A day at Fowlers and then another day in Penong then straight through to Adelaide.

[diggerdickson]

Finally reached the east coast. Im sitting at my old local "Shelly beach" on the central coast awaiting the weekend swell

[Over55yrs]

welcome 'home' and hope all is well

[Trev]

Finally reached the east coast. Im sitting at my old local "Shelly beach" on the central coast awaiting the weekend swell

That the one near Bateau Bay shopping centre.
Love that area.

[Davros]

Thanks for the journal Digger

[diggerdickson]

Thanks for the journal Digger

Pleasure mate. Heaps more travelling to go. Sunshine Coast is next. Three places i want to surf there once more is Moffats with Trev, Old woman island and the right hand point at Coolum in a big swell. Im here for a while hoping to score towoon bay and a place called the front.

I can't believe how many stand up paddle boarders there are here. There was none when I left eight or so years ago.

[Davros]

A mission if I ever did see one

[diggerdickson]

A mission if I ever did see one

You only live once and I intend to suck every bit out of it and go to the grave satisfied with no " if only" thoughts

[Davros]

[diggerdickson]

On our way to the sunny coast via New England highway and Tracy drops a clanger. She wants to move back to Mudgee, my worst nightmare has come true.

[diggerdickson]

Looks like i don't get to go any further as we are in Mudgee now visiting her grandmother. Oh well. If i stay I'm going to set up a shed to shape and make a trip to wherever to pick up supplies to make a few boards that i may never get to surf. Oh well, at least i did surf for years and years. Now for the next part of my journey

[Davros]

Tell you what Digger surfs not great there but pretty nice place. Spend a bit of time up the road at Gulgong the 10 ten dollar town.

[marauding mullet]

On our way to the sunny coast via New England highway and Tracy drops a clanger. She wants to move back to Mudgee, my worst nightmare has come true.

Just roll with it Digger, it won't be forever.
I had a mate who ended up in Alice Springs for a few years. His take on his situation was..."it's the closest place to every surf spot in Oz"

[Drailed]

To be fair Digger it doesn;t sound like you have done much surfing on tis trip so far anyway so give it a crack for a bit.

[diggerdickson]

I hear ya mate. Mudgee has some family history on Wife's side that is not real good. Kids grandfather is barred from our little ones for their safety. It's like a circus with the whole clan playing Dixie. On the plus side their is friends for her. Time will tell if she can cope with the dynamics here. Last time we lasted a few years then got out.

I'm happy to give up surfing for her if thats what I should do. I just worry about her health living in the same town as her twisted famly. For me its my worst nightmare