Gday there FW crew,

I'm heading over the west coast of SA later in the week driving from Margs and was wondering if anyone has any knowledge of roads that get you through from Hyden towards Norsman?

I dont have my trusty maps book as a mate has permanantly borrowed it it seems so i thought i'd ask you guys...

I've done the southern route cutting off Esperance and coming out around Grass patch i think it is from memory and I've also taken the punt on the Lake King/Norseman track that i'd rather not bother with again a couple of times....

I'm in a Hilux towing a Jetski so i'd rather stick to decent roads if possible unless i can knock a couple of hours of the long haul....

Cheers,

Tim

 Hey all can anyone recommend a good mechanic rocko area pref mobile or otherwise that knows his stuff and reasonably priced  dont want to get stuck with the ill guess and replace everything till i get it right kinda guys . Pajero nm has coolant leak sorta back of water pump valley area cheers craig

 Sitting at the islands listening to the ABC and I hear there is a search on for "2 men in there 50's in an 8m boat who failed to return last night.

Lets hope they are all ok...

 Friday night off Two Rocks. Went 9 kg on soft plastics and a great fight in 14 m of water.Total of 2 caught but the second was only just over the legal size so was released. Lost a couple of large fish possibly rays.Good time of the year for inshore fishing. 

 I need some advice from those in the know.

Just picked up a second hand tank for the daughter and was wondering if i could just run with the gear supplied or if i need to remove it all and steralize it.

The tank was only half full of water and had no fish in it for over a year the seller said. The water was pretty skuzzy and has been drained out to the gravel level, about 3 inches, but they had the filter running when i turned up.Both an under gravel and remote box type filter. Would there still be a possibility of any fish desease still being present after a year with no fish?. Could there still be the good bacteria living in the filter, there for speeding up the nitrogen cycle that is needed? 

Any advise would be appreciated.

 Best chance for a break through win for the year, hope he likes a wet track there in Monaco.

hi all anyone cut a hatch into the bow of their Ali

i have trailcraft 610 and want to access the anchor via a hatch instead of walking around the outside of the cab

l Am interested to hear the pros and cons of cutting a large hole in your bow section and who would do the work for you   

 Howdy lads,

Heading up to ningaloo tuesday morning and wonder if anyone is in the know about water supplies in canarvon?

We are considering leaving all tanks and jerrys empty to keep weight down for the bulk of the trip and fill up with 140 litres in canarvon. Is it possible to do this?

Thanks in advance lads.

A bit of information for Tradesmen out there who may be finding it a bit tough at the moment.

Are you aware that "our" Australian Government is actively seeking foreign workers to do YOUR job-STILL?

Linked here is the Skilled Occupation List, issued May 2016.
https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Work/Work/Skills-assessment-and-assessing-authorities/skilled-occupations-lists/SOL
On this list you will find
Electrician
Carpenter
Roof plumber
Fitter Turner
Brick layer
Cabinet maker
Shipwright
Tiler
Plasterer
Glazier
Panelbeater
Locksmith
Ships Officer
Ships Engineer
Registered Nurse
and many many more occupations.

How did I come across this?
Someone posted a link on Facebook to an Indian website showing it with hundreds of enquiries from people who will in all likelihood, do your job (and mine) for a pittance.
I thought it was a joke, until I searched it up on the Immigration and Border Protection website.
Perhaps you need to write to your local member (Melissa Price here
http://melissapricemp.com.au/Contact-Melissa) for anyone north of Perth

and ask why, and what they are going to do about this if anything?
Or are you just going to sit on your ass complaining, and do nothing?
Apathy will kill your job, and mine.
You have about a month to do something, to find out where your local member stands, and find out what they are actually going to do.
Just write who you are, what you do and your work situation and ask why foreigners are being sought to take your job.
Doesnt need to be War and Peace. 

For me personally, they keep trying to bring in the "Shipping Reform Legislation".

Failed in the Senate in December due to Senators who wouldnt play the game, so they simply removed the need to have ANY visa to work on an Oil and Gas vessel in Australia.
"changes from 14 December 2015 exclude people working on vessels involved in offshore resources activities from the requirement to hold a visa."

https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Work/Visa

The IMO minimum wage for a seafarer is $US614 a month, with 2.5 days per month of leave accrued.

 last friday a  rockingham shire ranger was down at the kwinana beach boat ramp snaping pics of cars parked in a no parking zone , turns out that ramp is resposiblity of kwinana not rockingham so if you get a parking ticket from rocky council dispute it , was quite funny when i looked to where the ranger was parked it was dirrectly under a no parking sign , i have taken it up with rocky council and they admit she was out of her area of resposibily and nobody will get a ticket now

Getting the beast ready for a bit of black track action and I have 4 new 255/40/17  wet weather competition  tyres I need fitted and balanced. 

Can anyone help.....I am up for a contra deal........

North of River  

cheers 

John

Thoughts?
Thinking Swans
Hawks
Melbourne
Saints
Richmond
Crows (only because Adelaide Oval)
Cats
Collingwood (darkie for this Rd)
Eagles

In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt.
What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 year - and most people don't see it coming. Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you would never take pictures on paper film again?
Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore's law. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a long time, before it became way superior and got mainstream in only a few short years. It will now happen with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs. Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution. Welcome to the Exponential Age.

Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.

Uber is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world. Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties.

Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected. In the US, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of IBM Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for more or less basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% less lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain. Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, 4 time more accurate than human nurses. Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.

Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self driving cars will appear for the public. Around 2020, the complete industry will start to be disrupted. You don't want to own a car anymore. You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination. You will not need to park it, you only pay for the driven distance and can be productive while driving. Our kids will never get a driver's licence and will never own a car. It will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% less cars for that. We can transform former parking space into parks. 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide. We now have one accident every 100,000 km, with autonomous driving that will drop to one accident in 10 million km. That will save a million lives each year.
Most car companies might become bankrupt. Traditional car companies try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels. I spoke to a lot of engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; they are completely terrified of Tesla.

Insurance companies will have massive trouble because without accidents, the insurance will become 100x cheaper. Their car insurance business model will disappear.

Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will move further away to live in a more beautiful neighborhood.

Electric cars will become mainstream until 2020. Cities will be less noisy because all cars will run on electric. Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean: Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can only now see the impact. Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil. The price for solar will drop so much that all coal companies will be out of business by 2025.

With cheap electricity comes cheap and abundant water. Desalination now only needs 2kWh per cubic meter. We don't have scarce water in most places, we only have scarce drinking water. Imagine what will be possible if anyone can have as much clean water as he wants, for nearly no cost.

Health: The Tricorder X price will be announced this year. There will be companies who will build a medical device (called the "Tricorder" from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your blood sample and you breath into it. It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any disease. It will be cheap, so in a few years everyone on this planet will have access to world class medicine, nearly for free.

3D printing: The price of the cheapest 3D printer came down from $18,000 to $400 within 10 years. In the same time, it became 100 times faster. All major shoe companies started 3D printing shoes. Spare airplane parts are already 3D printed in remote airports. The space station now has a printer that eliminates the need for the large amount of spare parts they used to have in the past.

At the end of this year, new smart phones will have 3D scanning possibilities. You can then 3D scan your feet and print your perfect shoe at home. In China, they already 3D printed a complete 6-storey office building. By 2027, 10% of everything that's being produced will be 3D printed.

Business opportunities: If you think of a niche you want to go in, ask yourself: "in the future, do you think we will have that?" and if the answer is yes, how can you make that happen sooner? If it doesn't work with your phone, forget the idea. And any idea designed for success in the 20th century is doomed in to failure in the 21st century.

Work: 70-80% of jobs will disappear in the next 20 years. There will be a lot of new jobs, but it is not clear if there will be enough new jobs in such a small time.

Agriculture: There will be a $100 agricultural robot in the future. Farmers in 3rd world countries can then become managers of their field instead of working all days on their fields. Aeroponics will need much less water. The first Petri dish produced veal is now available and will be cheaper than cow produced veal in 2018. Right now, 30% of all agricultural surfaces is used for cows. Imagine if we don't need that space anymore. There are several startups who will bring insect protein to the market shortly. It contains more protein than meat. It will be labeled as "alternative protein source" (because most people still reject the idea of eating insects).

There is an app called "moodies" which can already tell in which mood you are. Until 2020 there will be apps that can tell by your facial expressions if you are lying. Imagine a political debate where it's being displayed when they are telling the truth and when not.

Bitcoin will become mainstream this year and might even become the default reserve currency.

Longevity: Right now, the average life span increases by 3 months per year. Four years ago, the life span used to be 79 years, now it's 80 years. The increase itself is increasing and by 2036, there will be more that one year increase per year. So we all might live for a long long time, probably way more than 100.

Education: The cheapest smart phones are already at $10 in Africa and Asia. Until 2020, 70% of all humans will own a smart phone. That means, everyone has the same access to world class education. Every child can use Khan academy for everything a child learns at school in First World countries. We have already released our software in Indonesia and will release it in Arabic, Suaheli and Chinese this Summer, because I see an enormous potential. We will give the English app for free, so that children in Africa can become fluent in English within half a year.

 HI Guys

Saw an older post from 2008 about launching a boat from guilderton

Was looking for some new info.  Has the groin been rebuilt?

Going to Guilderton for June long weekend, want to know how easy it is to launch a 4m tinny from the beach that time of year?

If its like Seabird this time of year I might give it a miss....

Yes have 4wd

cheers

Didnt know this myself until just a moment ago...

Notices to Mariners are available on line here:

http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/

Look under the "Alerts" tab.

 Can freo get a win?

Can eagles shake the flat track bullies tag?

I'm tipping both.  Neither with any confidence.  Hill a big out to add to the list and the tiges full of confidence.  And the eagles, only because port dont have a ruckman, nic nat will get a stat or 20, eagles will get first use and win.

My full tips to come.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/05/15/01/49/five-melb-men-charged-over-is-plot

Dubbed the "Tinnie Terrorists"

Maybe they were just very keen Fisherman! lol

For you oldies with friends and relatives have a look at http://www.health.gov.au/internet/immunise/publishing.nsf/Content/6F3E19FBD9698FD7CA257E58000160AE/$File/pneuv-older.pdf

as it just may save your life or someone elses.

I have had mine at the same time as the flu injection.

 Hey all you people that take your boat to Steep Point and camp at Shelter Bay as I do.

We have always carted fuel in by jerry can.  Last year was 500 litres for 6 days and that still wasnt enough thanks to the second boat being thirsty.

Next year we are going for longer which will mean a fuel run out to overlander mid trip.

Does / has anyone on this forum ever taken fuel in in 44 gal drums, or had it delivered to the ranger?  Just interested to know about cost and logistics if anyone can help?

Thanks.

Snapper Guardians is continuing to be a success with the government finally stepping up to contribute too

'Recfishwest are delighted with the state government’s budget commitment today which will see $300,000 over the next 2 years towards the release of more Pink Snapper fingerlings into Cockburn Sound.

People stood up and made a pledge to chip in towards a solution, and it’s great to see the government throw their support behind this initiative.

This contribution will allow on-ground activities to focus directly on maintaining and protecting health fish stocks to support better fishing. It will also provide opportunities for the community to get involved.

 Going to head down to North Mole over the weekend chasing Snapper and have not tried there before. Which is the best side to try north or south side? Wind forecast from the South West.

 Crows to bowl over the Cats at home

North easily over Essendoping

Ha ha Hawks to make the Dorkers look like a Sat amatuer side

GWS to smack GC

Bris maybe over the cold pies

Syd over the luckless Tigers

Port over Carlton

Doggies over Melbourne but closer odds than on AFL tipping, they are playing good footy at the moment

Eagles to belt the Saints

Had a freedom4 for maybe 8 or more years and worked a treat. Upgraded to a Freedom7 which I have had for 2 years, work overseas so it barely gets used, always soaked in a tub, dried and stored in a bag (out of direct light). The 2 wires that go from the battery to antenna have split/cracked in multiple places through and subsequently wires have corroded through.

I am really disappointed that $700 spent, barely used and the rest of it in perfectly good condition ends like this. Great product, mine was a new batch and obviously cheap wire used. Tried to call shark shield but they only want to talk if your buying a new one (spending the $$$) ref you to online page, trade in for a few hundred more. Pretty pissed.

Has anyone else had the same issue?

Just read that there has been a stabbing at Woodmans point over salmon, do not know any more than this and hope someone can fill in the details

G'day all, is anybody using the above dual battery system? I'm looking to set up a second battery in the rear of my ute. Just looking for the goods and bads.

Just got a message from Deepwater, he said he just lost a salmon off the end of the Learmonth jetty, sounds strange but if anyone knows salmon eff does.

He got his first at age of 5 on South Conto beach and over the next 35 years has caught thousands either as a rec with rod and reel or as a pro so I don't doubt his claim for one second

The Tomcat 17 footer that I am importing is all but finished and will be on its way early next week. Having parted with my much loved 5m Seafarer in early February I am having withdrawal symptoms. I am attaching a few pics of this South African built (Natal east coast)Cat. Expected in Freo end of May. As excited as a kid on Christmas eve.

 any panel beaters or boiler makers out there?

need a couple of floor pans cut out and replaced/ steel welded etc to get a car over the pits.

either reply with details or give me a call/ text on 0439099597.

cheers

brett

 Hope Benjamin Batterham case gets thrown out of court on acquittal!

oops - posted on FB assume its Lancelin/seabird area
think it may have been stolen so not a happy ending for someone