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Room Number Please Sir

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 28 July 2010 by Chinwagger16 January 2016

Today the sun is out and the day looks picture perfect, no wind,the air is hot, the sky blue. The mission is to pull up a couple of deck chairs by the pool and chill. We picked the smaller family area, sorted out a couple of chairs and proceeded to do absolutely nothing. The worry for today is the barman is … Continue reading →

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Racha Yai for the Day

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 17 July 2010 by Chinwagger16 January 2016

70% chance of rain, winds between 15 and 30 knots, storms expected, we are having a light breakfast before being picked up at 8:10 for a trip out diving and snorkeling at Pi Pi island, we are apparently going in a speed boat. We piled into the white mini bus, right on 8.30 and headed across to the east of … Continue reading →

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Shopping Patong Markets

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 16 July 2010 by Chinwagger16 June 2019

Today we needed to book the last of our tours and I had decided to buy some singlets and T-Shirts. Back we went to Patong Beach to hit the markets fairly early. The markets are not far from the Merlin Hotel Patong and there was rows and rows of stalls all selling much the same things, the usual, monogrammed singlets, … Continue reading →

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First Look at Patong Beach

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 14 July 2010 by Chinwagger16 January 2016

Starting around 11 am we began our assault on Patong Beach, the transport was a bus that rather looked like a Philippine Jeep Nee, or a stretch Tuk Tuk. Nearly thirty of us pile on this stainless steel troop carrier style truck after presenting our free tickets. Patong doesn’t come alive during the day, even eleven in the morning appears … Continue reading →

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Merlin Beach Patong Paradise

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 13 July 2010 by Chinwagger31 July 2015

Check out at 6am, transfer at 6.15, flight at 8.40 our final leg to Phuket was a very early start. Changi Airport is a giant shopping mall, with bleary eyes we made an unenthusiastic effort to look around. Hungry we gave up and settled at a bar for breakfast waiting for our flight to board. Singapore to Phuket was an … Continue reading →

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Houseboat on Caboolture River

Buying a House Boat

The phone call came late in the evening. I usually leave calls after eight at night. The phone played that stupid noise I had assigned the ring tone. Who the hell is this bloody phone bloody scam? I thought I'll ...
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A pair of Ugg Boots

Carpet Laying by Gazza

Through my life my close friend and ally in the sometimes serious and sometimes mischief passage of our joint existence has featured in a number of incidents that somehow become known as the Gazza Curse, I will leave the reader ...
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The Forklift

My son and I own a small flooring store, part of a bigger franchising network. He runs the store and I get to do all the jobs that are not selling flooring. There appear to be a lot of these ...
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First Red Claw Catches

First trip for our camper, we  travelled very west of here, to a place called Lake Boondooma . This is a man-made lake which has a huge area for camping. The camping is "bush camping", off grid no power, no ...
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Sun Moon Lake Here We Come

Sun Moon Lake Here We Come

After my assignment in Taipei Al and I decided to brave the wilds of inner Taiwan and find somewhere to spend a few days doing very little other than a some walking and perhaps some bike riding. Our destination is ...
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Coast Guard Rescue

Coast Guard Rescue

Sometimes things just don't go as right as they could and sometimes when that happens particular people are always present. You feel that perhaps, just perhaps they have a little bit influence, it could be some sort of bad air ...
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Caught by a Lure

Caught by a Lure

“Bugger it’s got me” The sound of a fisher that’s just been hooked by their own lure. Fishing in the Upper Noosa we only use lures. Mostly traditional lures, although we have tried various squidgy soft baits and this time ...
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Is Easter fishing cancelled again

Its Thursday 21st April 2011 and its been raining for three days, our back garden has had 24cm, 23cm and 19cm, Harley tells me there has been more further north at Cooroy. Great as Cooroy is close to where we ...
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Toilet paper and snorkelling

The morning constitutional, is always a ritual taken with some trepidation when camping. The facilities can vary from nothing at all, that's the dig your hole and bury your own business,  to full clean flush toilets with hot and cold water ...
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