My little piece of peace

Hi downunder,
Spoke to Bill and he may have a place for my boat - Thanks very much for the link... Much Appreciated...

 

Hello Me hearties,
Farm life is keeping me occupied and interested in other things apart from boating... My images are all 4000 x 3000 and this system on BD.net does not automatically handle that size ??? and selecting the ones I would like to post, then resize before posting becomes a pain for this lazy old *******...

The boat is sitting patiently at its mooring, I still have a bit to do in preparation for sale or trade for a cottage and land somewhere close to Cairns (not on the flats of the cane-fields)... and not marooned during floods in the wet season...

I went for a drive out to Mareeba for some hose joining "irrigation" bits and stroll through the monthly markets there (a Saturday event) - My little ancient Subaru - borrowed from Silver Raven, is now washed and clean outside (the inside is still cluttered with stuff - That next - ), but the rear window is nicely covered with dust and through which I have written "I'm LOST!" which has amused some...

The peacock continually bleats its cry, seeking a hen to mate with - Seems it is kept as a "snake and Goshawk" alert system for the breeding parrots kept... - I guess all will need to be sold soon as the 14.5 acre property is to be sold, asking Au$490K find the place on Googleearth set in decimal degrees S-16.797853 & E145.572102 at an elevation of 351M... The place has a permanent flowing stream and is about one-third cleared and no restrictions on clearing the rest of this used-to-be dairy farm...

Here is Pamela Patterson who could shame most of you yachties, - - in the Sydney races, skippering many successful large yachts for the elite boat owners of the time... It is her property that is for sale, so it is definitely "boating business"... Her brother David was also visiting at the time...
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I thought I would add an image of the block - I am not too sure of the back boundary - It may go further ? The river at the bottom right is the Barron... The property is about 14km from Kuranda...
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How far away is the nearest shopping centre and a hospital. Very important at your age.

What are you going to do with all that land?

I thought you wanted to retire. As boring places to live goes I would put that right up there.

Can I just point out that you built a boat and was going to sail away to coco nut island,-- have you dropped that now.

Whats this new Idea?

 

Hi Frosty,
As for the first line, when my time is up (through natural causes) so be it, As for stupidity - I think that, at my age I have learnt to be cautious and not take unnecessary risks...

All that land, ? Occupy myself by wandering around observing the things I have planted grow and yield their fruit - and also discretely appreciate the laid back society I have joined and become as a contributing member...

480 miles across the sea, Coconut Island is waiting for me,,,, as the song goes,,, but WTF, I am starting to feel my age, recognising that I am not bullet proof and about half way along that passage is the "recommended route for vessels plying outside the Great Barrier Reef" and threading the eye of the needle (shallow waters and fast tidal flows with moving sandbars etc) of the Torres Strait to head to commercial ports further west... I cannot see them at the AIS site for Global Shipping as they are out of range of the normal repeaters http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?centerx=30&centery=25&zoom=2&level1=140 and my boat does not have an AIS receiver... One can see those with a pilot aboard passing close to Thursday Island, having gone up inside the barrier reef, - - but the other passage further north is unrestricted and out of VHF marine radio range too...

At the port of Karumba (at the SE lower corner of the Gulf of Carpentaria are two ships, and some 18 assorted ships in and around the Cairns reporting area, and for the coastline in between, either the repeaters are down or there is no shipping operating all along the coast in between... There was 15 vessels around Thursday Island about a week ago so who knows?

I happen to appreciate the quiet life, and presently - - with Silver Raven on the 'sick' list I am helping with chores on their "lifestyle" farm-let, which they seek to sell... It is 15 km from Kuranda, a further 14km to a shopping centre at the bottom of the ranges or 26km to the CBD of Cairns and the inflated prices that tourism brings... Hundreds of Japanese wandering about and lots of other tourists seemingly wandering about well out of their "comfort zone" in the humidity...

The original desire still is strong but that 480 miles is a bigger barrier now that I am so close and without an experienced and competent crew as anticipated in Silver Raven... The attached googleearth image is the sort of place I seek - at a guess on production probably worth around 50,000Kina based on 10 years copra production yielding about 5000K a year - cocoa is an unknown... This is on the Eastern end of Goodenough Island... Less than 3km NW is a township, and an all-weather airstrip within 10km, or 15km by road... That place is possibly abandoned as the image was 2003...

 

You must be able to find a couple of tourists wanting a one way to PNG down in cairns.

Get ready and do it quick , friendship can turn real sour with familarity (I know).

Agree on everything,--- one way,---- get off,---bye bye.

Thats a what a 3 day cross

I know you enjoy laid back but ther'es laid back, quiet and what you have ---- isolated. You need to be near people if you don't then you would not be here every day typing stuff.

 

Hi Frosty,

That is correct, - - 3.3 days actually and way beyond the attention span of most backpackers, of whom not many seek to go to the wilds and remote regions of PNG... I do not "Need to be near people" but I do NEED to complete some work and other commitments and save up for a couple of parts (rudder post) as the rudder building will be a "freebie"... Money for a pensioner is an agonisingly slow process of accumulation and setting aside meagre portions each fortnight from shore based cost of living expenses...

 

Cant you claim more> tell them the pension is not suitable for the manner you have become accustomed. Claim for some back ache -hypertension what ever you can think of,--- like every body else does.

When I come to claim a pension im gonna give em hell, Im an autistic, thalidomide diabetic with sleep disorders and migraine with asthma and food sensitivity ie I can only eat lobster. I know people that have made a living off it and don't even live in the country.

Or you could tell them your insane --they would beleive that if you bought that land.

 

Are you on drugs? or recovering from a heavy night of beer? Things are quiet - 'expectantly so' - seems like "a mood in the air" of economic expectancy - a sort of what the heck is going on... Some appear to be selectively buying real-estate, some seem to be holding off buying or selling in the hope of real-estate recovery but others are expressing concern at the prospect of further falls in the price of real-estate...

Many of the Whitsunday resorts are still closed - Cairns and Kuranda seem to be attracting Chinese and Japanese tourists which keeps the tourist turnover ticking along - but not bountiful as in past boom times...

Frosty,
By the time your reach the age of retirement and a 'pension' the "pensionable age" will be ten years older than you... and also you will find out that the British Government do not have the money to pay pensioners (unless they have debased the currency soooo much that a "British Pound" will be exchanged one for one for a 'bhat' or less)...

As it is I may have to start selling my selection of power tools at local markets... I have taken lots of stuff off the boat already, all the frozen food, all the tinned stuff and all the dried foods, like rice, milk powder, sugar, noodles, soup packets, flour, dried-fruit, jerky, dehydrated-water and so on... CNO is riding quite high as that was more than 500kg and the computer stuff another 100kg (the laser printer is bloody heavy - along with the spare toner cartridges) I have removed the petrol as that does not keep and will probably remove some of the older diesel for the same reason (the newest 240 litres of diesel will stay in case I need to move to "hide the boat' from a storm) as I have committed to stay in Kuranda over for the wet season...
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Mas I have diesel 4 years old, your making this very hard for yourself, its fine.

How this mind set of fuel going off is my profit --I pick up many 20 liter containers in the marina discarded by similar thinking and put it through my fuel scrubber system and l into the tank it goes. If its clean its perfect.

Fuel is expensive enough im not throwing it away. I also add 10 % deisel in my petrol engines such as motor bikes.

Pension --just make sure you are getting all you should, take a advice.

 

Something for you, Global Economic Health Check by Satyajit Das - a well regarded analyst of global economic matters and another interesting essay that is also globally significant in the second part of this 12 page pdf file - - - read and learn...

Then is a one page notice to print out and display in one of the windows of your boat with a hand scribed scrawl from a bloody hand dipped in tar, the words "pirates will be keelhauled then. . ."

And finally to put the bible bashers in their place - instructions from the bible... - which should amuse the rest...

 

http://www.trendsresearch.com/SubscriberArea/gerald-celente-alex-jones-radio-october-19-2012 Is USA really that screwed? - and also in today http://www.trendsresearch.com/SubscriberArea/gerald-celente-tommy-schnurmacher-show-october-22-2012 - - - Gotta be amased... and now from England a conspiracy http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/oct/17/martin-sheen-woody-harrelson-9-11-truther - - Who is bloody mad...


This one I like though . . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryD5lqRM-Tw - and also this - http://www.roadtoroota.com/public/1027.cfm?awt_l=J859B&awt_m=3k4GJYsu2hAZ85B - - - You can see that I am having a very quiet time other than indulging in cutting back heavy growth with a brush cutter and then sweeping and trimming with the ride-on mower... - - - Oh what fun and silliness, that passes for serious discourse... and the main stream media is even worse...

I had a lovely pizza today, home made base and beautiful prawn and associated stuff as topping - NOW THAT WAS DELICIOUS...
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Today is another quiet day for me and in watching some videos, this one seems logical and worthy of marking - (mainly so that I can point friends to the links)...
http://goldsilver.com/news/historic...GoldSilver Email Marketing&utm_term=read more is an audio presentation with some "powerpoint" type presentation to illustrate the points being made...

http://goldsilver.com/news/jim-rick...098e88b&utm_source=GoldSilver Email Marketing is a THEORETICAL analysis after the style of what the "wargames in USA" have completed at high levels... - - can you suck eggs?
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How to Quickly Resize, Convert & Modify Images from the Linux Terminal ---> "batch processing" is what you need.

 

Just been to the immigration office to renew my 1 year retirement visa. Easy --pick up at 3 pm then get a multiple re entry permit . I can then stay 1 year and go in and out the country as many times as I want. At the end of the year is it simply renewed.

Thailand is one of the best and easiest places to be an expat out of European tax directives.

All you need is to be over 50, a form that sooo easy, 1 photo and a letter from a bank or banks guaranteeing 800,000 Baht in any Thai bank ( 30 baht =dollar) in any currency even fixed term. The money is yours to spend and must be replaced before the next re newal 3 month prior.

If you don't have that they will take consideration into any pension you may have as 50/50 with a letter of proof from your embassy.

Malaysia (my second home ) is different you can stay 10 years you have to bank 350,000 ringet ( 3 ringet is 1 dollar dollars and you cant access it till you leave.

Cost of living is cheap in the East less than 1.50 dollar a bottle.

Electric 1 month 30 dollars. 35 hours internet (sim) 3 dollar.

Water 1 cube-1000 liters 80 cents and drinkable.

Road tax for motorbike 3 dollar. Car 30 dollar.

My little piece of peace although not peacefull at all.

Oh well I'lle just put my speedo's on and go wash the bike.