Challenge
Homecoming
Tell us about a time when you came home and what you were feeling. Might be home from the hospital, the service, a visit to see Mom & Dad, or an amazing adventure.
Bass Strait
Three months on a jack up barge towed from Singapore in the choppy seas of Bass Strait.
To lay oil pipes to the ends of the earth Tasmania.
In the galley of the barge I worked twelve on twelve off, sleep, work, sleep. At night as the stinger at the stern beat out a metallic rhythm feeding pipe to the sea floor, I walked the yellow line up top as riggers went about their tasks.
Choppered in and choppered out I was a farm boy out on the briny sea.
Finally I was choppered to Essendon Airport to take a tram home after all that time.
Tram, taxi, and by foot I walked up the long driveway to my family triumphant at the job done.
Three months at sea and finally home.
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