Sounds great Chris, enjoy the culture exchange!!

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Mike (Pony) Moore
O42860
Ex-LT GLEN(ME)
16th MOBI intake
Jan 64 - Jul 88.
Anzac, Nirimba, Stalwart, Moresby, Creswell, Waterhen, Penguin, Vampire, GMGID (PJP), Coonawarra, Attack, Ardent, Cook, Kuttabull, Cerberus.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Nice one SeeJay, enjoy...

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Rick Pengilly
WEBMASTER
Ex-CPOMTH3
R42630
13th MOBI Intake
July'62 to July'74
HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Melbourne - HMAS Cerberus - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Lonsdale - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Brisbane

Back home. Posted this update on facebook yesterday. Sums it up. Culture shows were fanbloodytastic!

Well, we decided that Casino-ing was not on our list for this evening, preferring to stay in the room & prepare for the return home tomorrow.

We discovered by accident (on our arrival) the best way to get from the airport into the city & our hotel. Soooo much simpler than previous visits - Skytrain to central, then a pleasant meander through several shopping malls to Queen Street mall and the Ibis Styles. Piece of cake.

So today we decided to do a quick trip back out to DFO and sample some of the shopping there, and see Granddaughter Maddison - two birds with the one trip.

Then, Qld Rail happened with track closures, buses, delays and really ignorant drivers and rude passengers and lots of ar...........s - well, you get the picture. What should have been a 40 minute trip took near 2 hours. Visit was great, shopping great,

....and we took a cab back to the city and followed by a senior's nap. Same closures in place tomorrow, so it'll be another cab.

The trip + lots of walking allowed us to see lots of the local 'humanity' though. I saw Friar Tuck (of Robin Hood fame), lots of people with gender confusion - especially the guy in the swanky business suit, heaps of makeup and 3 inch stiletto heels - some dressed as primates (could have been NSW supporters), some dressed as people from another planet, and so much more.
Then there were the two young ... um .. girls in Hungry Jack's who felt they were really cats - along with furry ears and long fluffy tails stuck in really inappropriate places. They surprised Jan so much she could only stare and stutter! Me being the very model of a modern major gentleman, I had to reprimand her for her insensitivity. I feel however, that my raucus laughter may have belied my true feelings.

Quite educational to visit the big smoke from time to time to see where all of the state money has been spent on raised highways, tunnels, bridges and freeways (that aren't free).

Home, here we come!!

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Chris O'Keefe
R43136
Ex WO Chippy
19th MOBI Intake
July 65 to July 85
HMAS Nirimba X 4 -Penguin-Sydney-Queenborough - Creswell - Moreton - Stalwart - Platypus - Coonawarra Reconstruction Team 76 - Platypus - Hobart - Cerberus - FHQ - Coonawarra.

Anyone can be ordinary. Shipwrights choose to be extraordinary!

Gnomeranger & Pronto are away again: we leave on Tuesday 18 for LA for 3 days then 16 day ocean to ocean cruise on Coral Princess, Panama Canal, couple days in Ft. Lauderdale then home to prepare for the next trip.

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Greg Eade
R43098
Ex-CPOMTH4
19th MOBI Intake
July 65-July 85
Nirimba, Sydney, Perth, Stalwart, Harman(Navy Office), Melbourne, Harman, Torrens, Nirimba, Harman.

Life is so much funnier when you have a dirty mind...

Enjoy Greg

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John Kelly (WEBMASTER)
R42620
Ex-WOMTH
13th MOBI Intake
July'62 to July'83
Nirimba x3 - Rushcutter - Sydney x2 (Carrier) - Melbourne (Carrier) - Penguin - Kuttabul - Creswell x3 - Stalwart x2 - Brisbane.

Have a great time Greg.

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Mike (Pony) Moore
O42860
Ex-LT GLEN(ME)
16th MOBI intake
Jan 64 - Jul 88.
Anzac, Nirimba, Stalwart, Moresby, Creswell, Waterhen, Penguin, Vampire, GMGID (PJP), Coonawarra, Attack, Ardent, Cook, Kuttabull, Cerberus.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Enjoy your jolly Greg, it would obviously be for humanitarian reasons!

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Brian Carney
R43371
Ex-WOMTP5
22nd Mobi Intake
Jan 67 - Jan 89
RANATE, Sydney, Swan, Creswell, Stalwart (FMU), Cerberus, Derwent, Nirimba, Parramatta, Nirimba, FHQ (FMMO).

Sounds great Greg, enjoy..!

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Rick Pengilly
WEBMASTER
Ex-CPOMTH3
R42630
13th MOBI Intake
July'62 to July'74
HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Melbourne - HMAS Cerberus - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Lonsdale - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Brisbane

Heading to Esperance for a few days on Thursday. I passed through there a few years ago and figured I would return at some point.

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Graeme 'Smiley' Rhodes
R94714
Ex-CPOMTP(D)5
Jan'65 Leeuwin Intake (10th) - Jan'66 Nirimba Intake (20th)
Jan'65 to Mar '88
Leeuwin, Nirimba, Stalwart, Samarai, Lae, Penguin, Curlew, Buccaneer, Navy Office, Barbette, Cairns, RANTTU (based in Port Moresby), Stirling, Bunbury.

Enjoy those brilliant ocean colours.

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Brian Carney
R43371
Ex-WOMTP5
22nd Mobi Intake
Jan 67 - Jan 89
RANATE, Sydney, Swan, Creswell, Stalwart (FMU), Cerberus, Derwent, Nirimba, Parramatta, Nirimba, FHQ (FMMO).