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Old 16-10-2021, 11:54 AM   #691
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Good call, JD, Wondered when someone would pick that.
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And here I am looking for a " Stone fish "....lol....
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Don’t quarry, be happy.
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Had a hell of a time taking this pic, quality poor, but its a WA "motorbike frog" and yes that make a sound just like a motorbike, lol, it was attracted to the light inside, I heard a tapping on the rear cat door!

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Laurel & Hardy leaving the U.K. after a tour in 1932..




and the last photo of them together in 1956..

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Motorbike frog, my neighbours front garden!
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On ya bike mate. Good pic.
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On ya bike mate. Good pic.
My mate Brooke takes all the best pics I have seen on her phone, it's her work not mine, but both our cats were sitting looking at the flowers, on closer look she saw the frog camouflaged!
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Spotted this dugite while driving around my cousins farm today, looked brilliant in the full sun shining of his dark scales. About a metre and some long.
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Spotted this dugite while driving around my cousins farm today, looked brilliant in the full sun shining of his dark scales. About a metre and some long.
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It's a beauty eh, I love em in their natural habitat, looks like it's been out of hibernation with his fattish body, looking for sex, its already had its feed by the looks of it, too cool!
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Drove through Dumbleyung in WA south west yesterday.
This is a replica of Donald Campbell's Bluebird, set a world record on Lake Dumbleyung, 444kmh.
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ive ski'd on that lake use to live on a farm just south of nyabing on the nyabing - borden rd
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Drove through Dumbleyung in WA south west yesterday.
This is a replica of Donald Campbell's Bluebird, set a world record on Lake Dumbleyung, 444kmh.
Geez J it looks upside down to me, very early streamlining, do you remember seeing photos of the old Dreadnaught Class British Destroyers?
The shape of the prow, was angled backwards co pared to modern era, 2nd world war ships which are angled forward!
Cool picture brother!

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Id wager you didnt go as fast as he did?
and that was probably no fault of the ski boat but more my fat ar*e

was a mates yellow 351 clevo powered skicraft ski boat called extractor 2
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Stumbled across this pic of Melb CBD 1988, with XD taxi


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Some random pics from my last 5 week stint at sea, spent most of our time supplying the Jack-up Drill Rig V-107, also did our normal supply runs to the FPSO Montara Venture with a few trips to the WHP (Well Head Platform) The WHP ties in all the subsea Well Heads in the field then pipes the light crude to the FPSO.....The Valaris-107 is doing maintenance work on the 13 well heads.

Drifting in a flat calm and windless sea.





Sunrise.





The 'office' with both aft and forward control stations, you need lots off buttons, switches, levers, joysticks, computers, touch screens and annoying alarms to drive a ship these days, no room for a wheel though!

Aft control station.









Forward control station.







Working the Rig.







Working up close to the WHP.









Alongside the FPSO discharging 350m3 Diesel up to them..... This is an older FPSO and still needs regular fuel runs for it's generation plant, most of the new ones run of the gas coming up from the well.
Edit: Check out our newish shackle collection.







....next time out I'll grab some pics from below decks for the engineers amongst us.
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Great insight.....keep it coming DJR
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That really is like another planet. Amazing structures and “landscapes”, it’s clear by the way you take the pictures, it’s a job you enjoy.
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Made me think of nurses’ stations, that description.
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Made me think of nurses’ stations, that description.
Definitely, plus I like to think I'm doing my part in delaying the EV onslaught
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I know it's called random pics!...but it is a random pic, went to buy paper and walked in and the cat is fast asleep seemingly pushing away the back of his chair!....lol....

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Thank DJR, great pics and a great insight into what goes on with these giants of the sea.
Be interested to know what that document is tucked in behind the skippers chair, 5th picture, "Tribal Knowledge and..."
Planning a trip ashore in PNG or something?
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Be interested to know what that document is tucked in behind the skippers chair, 5th picture, "Tribal Knowledge and..."
Planning a trip ashore in PNG or something?
"Tribal Knowledge and Procedure Information" is just jargon terminology for information not normally found in the official documentation, in this case it's vessel specific information that's not common across all the vessels of this type, it's also a fluid document that is updated over the life of a vessel as systems and procedures change.

Only 10 of this vessel type were ever built and no two are the same, the TK document points out the main differences between this ship and the other 9 of the same type, the one in the chair is the bridge copy, there's another 6 or 7 for other areas on the vessel.

Skippers Chair.....I will have to let the rest of my deck officers know this, they obviously think it's anybody's as im always finding them using it
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Only 10 of this vessel type were ever built and no two are the same, the TK document points out the main differences between this ship and the other 9 of the same type, the one in the chair is the bridge copy, there's another 6 or 7 for other areas on the vessel.

must have been built by government
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Only 10 of this vessel type were ever built and no two are the same, the TK document points out the main differences between this ship and the other 9 of the same type, the one in the chair is the bridge copy, there's another 6 or 7 for other areas on the vessel.

must have been built by government
Nah not really, it's pretty standard world wide in shipbuilding.

The first and last vessel of this type/design (V Class) where built nearly six years apart, there isn't a shipyard around that can build ten of these ships side by side at the same time so four were built in Japan, three in South Korea and three in Batam.

The technological and engineering advances/changes that happen to the individual componentry in a vessel of this type in just six years are enormous, these changes are applied to the vessels throughout the build program so that #1 and #10 are worlds apart in some areas while on the surface appear to be the same.
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there isn't a shipyard around that can build ten of these ships side by side at the same time so four were built in Japan, four in South Korea and three in Batam.

these changes are applied to the vessels throughout the build program so that #1 and #10 are worlds apart in some areas while on the surface appear to be the same.
my head hurts and no matter how many times i do the math the way i was taught 4 + 4 + 3 i keep having trouble getting 10 my head hurts from trying to make it work and i knew i was bumberer than others but didnt know i was this dumbere
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