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Hippy Chippy
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connief wrote: Off to Broken Hill tomorrow for a week to see family, then down to Adelaide to visit friends and a couple of wineries.
Taking the high road over (via Cobar) and the low road back (via Hay Plains)
Back in Canberra on the 17th.  Drive  safely, Connie... Enjoy...  _________________  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
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sbjohns
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:28 pm |
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connief wrote: Off to Broken Hill tomorrow for a week to see family, then down to Adelaide to visit friends and a couple of wineries.
Taking the high road over (via Cobar) and the low road back (via Hay Plains)
Back in Canberra on the 17th. Hey Connie, it's been a long time since I travelled on the Hay Plains to Adelaide. (mid - late '70s) I guess it is no different these days?  Hours and hours of nothing. If you drove it at night, you could see the lights of the cars coming the other way for what seemed like hours before you actually passed them. 
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Nirimba, Kuttabul, WRE, Kuttabul, WRE, Kuttabul, Parramatta, WRE, Yarra, Stalwart, Derwent.
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Hippy Chippy
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 1:11 pm |
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 My most vivid memory of crossing the Hay Plains to Adelaide  was during a MOUSE  PLAGUE...!!! I was literally 'aqua-planing' on dead and dying squished mice...!!! _________________ 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
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sbjohns
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Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2020 1:08 pm |
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In the early 70's I was going out with a farmer's daughter  They had a mouse plague (in Sth Qld) at the time. Driving down the track from the road to the farmhouse was a similar experience with this moving brown carpet of rodents.  Enough to make you feel seasick 
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Graeme Rhodes
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 11:07 am |
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I have 'lations in and around the Hill!
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connief
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Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:17 am |
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I am back, made it safely out of SA on Monday morning.
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Bruce Francis
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Leeuwin,Cerberus x3, Lonsdale, Watson, Coonawarra(DNB), Harman.
Supply, Melbourne, Vampire, Attack, Ardent, Brisbane x2, Fremantle(Commissioning Crew), Sydney-FFG 03(Commissioning Crew), Hobart, Cessnock. Go the Mighty Magpies
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Hippy Chippy
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Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:05 pm |
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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
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connief
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Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 3:01 pm |
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Hippy Chippy wrote: Yep, had to go via the Sturt Hwy to Yamba and the checkpoint. Waved through there then into Vic without stopping, then over the bridge in Mildura into NSW. Had our passes checked on the bridge. Overnight at Balranald and home yesterday.
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Ex WM,QMG,Bosun,Paid off Sept 93
Leeuwin,Cerberus x3, Lonsdale, Watson, Coonawarra(DNB), Harman.
Supply, Melbourne, Vampire, Attack, Ardent, Brisbane x2, Fremantle(Commissioning Crew), Sydney-FFG 03(Commissioning Crew), Hobart, Cessnock. Go the Mighty Magpies
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connief
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 1:21 pm |
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Hi all, The wife and I are  to WA tonight for a couple of weeks to sample some wines around Margaret River and see some whales down off Albany. Catching the Indian Pacific back to Sydney, which will be a bit different from 1973 when I left Leeuwin. 
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Ex WM,QMG,Bosun,Paid off Sept 93
Leeuwin,Cerberus x3, Lonsdale, Watson, Coonawarra(DNB), Harman.
Supply, Melbourne, Vampire, Attack, Ardent, Brisbane x2, Fremantle(Commissioning Crew), Sydney-FFG 03(Commissioning Crew), Hobart, Cessnock. Go the Mighty Magpies
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Hippy Chippy
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 1:25 pm |
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Enjoy your break, Connie...  _________________ 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
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