£10 poms

[Keith Tindell]

Think its changed a bit since our day Cappy, grain silos still there, happy days there, although not as adventurous as your visit, lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEvfuZQ_mvM

[Ivan Cloherty]

Think I'll stick with the green green grass of home. The cruise passengers will look back on their visit there and say 'WHY'

[Keith Tindell]

I know what you mean Ivan, unless you just like brown dry landscape. My sister in law came to stay a couple of years back, she lives near Brisbane, she just kept asking me what i had done to my lawn, its so green she said, well, if you see my lawn, its nothing special, i guess she was not used to seeing lovely green landscapes.

[Ivan Cloherty]

I found the grass in OZ very hard and sharp, still have the scars on my back and Dorothy was very light!

[cappy]

I found the grass in OZ very hard and sharp, still have the scars on my back and Dorothy was very light!

Aha so dorothy was a mountie.......was she wearing her big hat LOL CAPPY

[cappy]

I do recall on the arrival into wallaroo standing by the galley door ...the galley was warm with a coal burning range ....a oz wharfie was standing near with his two boys one approx 11 or so and the other one at a guess about 8 years of age ...we had run down from basra and abadan.....up rolled a older AB and asked the wharfie is there a brothel here.......the wharfie said naw but there is a chance in the next township ...the younger of the 2 boys asked what is a brothel ......quick as a flash the 11 year old said in a worldly voice ......ITS WERE YOU FECK THE SHEILAS......even his old man burst out laughing.....r683532 cappy

[cappy]

Think its changed a bit since our day Cappy, grain silos still there, happy days there, although not as adventurous as your visit, lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEvfuZQ_mvM

it sure changed since i last saw it keith ...but the long jetty is very clear in my mind regards r683532

[j.sabourn]

#35 Cappy should have asked Ivan if she still had her spurs on as well as the big hat. JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Cappy.
You said 7 or 8 skinned out, blimey that's a small number, the tanker I was on in NZ I think only the Skipper Mates and two engineers were left aboard, and I only stayed because my brother told me to emigrate and get a cruise out of it.
Des

[j.sabourn]

#39 I nearly went in 1954 Des , with the catering boy from Whitley Bay . The main thing that held me back was the 30 pound my old man would of had to pay if I did as he was my surety . And if we had met in the future would of never heard the last of it. 30 quid was a kings ransom to him and to most people in those days . Instead I saw it out and received the 30 pounds myself , plus 30/- a week dole for 12 weeks in 1957 . After that it was back to sea with or without a cert. I was lucky and was with , and my 37 pounds a month as 3/m no overtime seemed like another Kings ransome. Cheers JS