And Now There Are Two

SUNDAY 9 JUNE 2019

It was cold, wet and windy in Perth this morning so had a bit of a lie on with Ned and Jess snuggled with me.  Kate eventually surfaced only looking marginally better than she had yesterday so felt a bit guilty shipping her off to her father’s but was also very keen not to get infected with her cold/flu germs so close to the beginning of the holiday!

Had lunch and watched the first half of the Eagles v Sydney game but was more than happy to turn it off at half time and do the final pack up and head off to the airport.

Luckily Ben has now got his driver’s licence so he could drop me at the airport.  Typical me got there with heaps of time to spare so treated myself to a trashy magazine and settled down in the lounge with the high vis boys to await my flight to Newman.

Plane was about half full so had a window seat with no one next to me and, once we got above the heavy cloud cover over Perth, it was a smooth and uneventful flight.  We were just coming in to land in Newman when the plane started accelerating and regaining altitude and we were told not to be alarmed but a sudden gust of wind had made them decide to do a lap and try again.  So we did a scenic loop of Newman by night and landed safely the second time around.  Funny thing was that it was dead calm at ground level so I wonder whether we had the trainee pilot rather than it being a rogue wind gust!

Larry was glad to see me, mostly because it was chilly waiting for the plane to decide to land, and we headed off in the work ute to our chalet for the night which is located behind the visitor centre in grounds scattered with old mining trucks, cranes etc.  It kind of reminded me of the Goodies episode where all the big mining equipment starts dancing and wondered if they would all come to life in the middle of the night!  Larry’s work has chosen this week to send the boys back to Kurra camp while they replace the air conditioners in their units so the original idea of my sleeping in L’s unit on an airbed didn’t eventuate.

We headed over the road to the Newman Hotel for a light dinner and then back to the chalet for an early night as Larry still has to get up early for work tomorrow.