A relatively new member

Good morning Marc Luther!

I remember recently you posted a story about helping some folk who were stranded out your way. It's people like you that made me want to live and explore The Pilbara and beyond. I bought my Cruiser for the purpose of the CSR and many other trips. And the occasional roo shoot!

I worked in the Heritage Dept for FMG for 3 years and the mob taught me heaps and I'll never forget them. Actually I'm still mates with them. I loved working with the old people on surveys as each billy tea time they spoke about their early days on the stations. Some were from Jigalong but most reside in Port Hedland.
They love a good yarn.

But I now live in Perth and have turned into a 'Fly in Fly out' worker. I'd rather live up there! I'm from Melbourne but I haven't lived there since 2000. Living in the Pilbara were some of my days yet

Again it's folk like you that make that portion of Australia so beautiful! Hopefully my girl & I may cross paths with you and your wife one day.

Pleased to meet you Marc Luther.

Cheers

Matthew

Gerday Marc Luther,

Welcome from the Simpson Desert, I have been an EXOZ member on & off for a few years & there are a great mob of people on the forum, everyone has differing amounts of experience & opinions.

I've been watching some of your threads with amusement & thought that I could best contribute by keeping quiet! Some others need to learn when it's best to do the same.

Look after yourself & family & I hope to get up your way eventually, If your in this part of the great brown then drop in for a cuppa & say gerday!

Gday Marc,
Im pretty sure we have met before? Cant think were, but Im sure we have crossed paths over the years. I lived in Alice for 20 odd years...(till I saw the light and headed West).....I used to work at CAT so possibly met you through work....

Anyway Gday........Cheers

Hi again Marc, how did you go with those Tyres n rims..... any takers yet

I have the same "policy" ..... "IF" i wake up it is a good day, if i get up it gets better .....

Back tracks!

That's the true and only way of seeing this Great Land of Ours!!!

Bitumen gets boring, very boring.

Take care

Matthew

Gday Marc.

I don't post here very often but I do follow the forum regularly and I find your posts about the most interesting. I am envious of the life you lead.
We are planning on leaving in about 18 months to tour this great country and I hope our paths will cross and we can have a bit of a yarn.
With regards to the travelers you helped out recently I had a bit of a chuckle and wondered if they would have acted differently if they had known who they were dealing with.
I don't mean you I mean your wife, any woman who can dispatch an animal with a rubber thong that an ex army bloke can't handle with a rifle is not a woman to be taken lightly.

Thanks for the interesting insight to life in your part of the country.

Cheers Rick.

H Marc, good to hear from you. With your experience you will be able to make a vgery valuable contrution to this forum. I will be listening out for you. Cheers

Just an observation about you Marc Luther!! and I hope you don't mind. I've been reading & following your posts since you first appeared on this site & always find your experiences & lifestyle interesting & I'm envious of it.

But now to my "observation"!! Many people, myself included, sometimes can be abrasive when replying, either verbally or otherwise, to a comment that offends or annoys us or we simply disagree with.

I think all of us have at times have met a person who in face to face verbal conversation are able to project themselves in a non aggressive, gentle & positive manner, regardless of the circumstances. They are a pleasure to know & communicate with.

To be able to project yourself, as you do, via the type written word and come across with a gentle, firm & congenial attitude I think a special quality that not too many people possess.

So again, I would like to state that I'm envious of your lifestyle as well as not possessing this to be much admired quality that you possess, so "Onyer" & take care.

Hi Mark,
Wish we had met you when we were up that way. My girls aged 7 and 9 now both hate living in a house. They love the outdoors and love the bush life. It would have been an awesome expirience for them to see the kind of life you live. Our girls loved staying at the staions and places like that. Sounds like you know some pretty amazing spots. I always said to people, the best places to see aren't on any tourist map.
I love your life policy.

Josh

Hi Marc Luther,
I too have come to appreciate your posts on this forum. Your "real life" experience is something that many of us envy, in a good way, you are living our dream!

My life policy is very similar to yours... I feel every day I wake up is a good day! And I too love to learn something new.

One day we hope to be visiting your neck of the woods, and I would love to meet you and your family when we do!

Regards

Brian

Hi Marc, Cheers mate, good to have you around.....

G'Day Marc and welcome....
I didn't realise you were a newby. Your composure and thoughtfullness extends far beyond your length of service on this forum. I've been on and off here for about 5 years and still occasionally manage to get moderated...doh!

I have the upmost respect for you and your way of life, and for the front line knowledge you bring with you to this forum. It's one thing to pass by an area, but to live there really does give first hand knowledge to all of us.

Secondly...it takes a big man to openly admit he's a tea tottaler considering the stereotypical Aussie way of life. (Not suggesting everyone's a drinker...). You can have your milk though....I'll stick to my Schweppes Mineral Water...lol.

Love your life motto. I have a few I go by, but my most prevalant one is "Life if for living - not merely for existing". And sleeping in on a Sunday is not what I consider "living" . To pinch a line from a Bon Jovi song "I"ll live while I'm alive, and sleep when I'm dead".

Anyway....look forward to more of your posts. Keep 'em coming.
Fab. (Short for Fabio.... didn't get a choice in the name selection process. Italian parents, Whyalla, SA born.)

Hi Marc Luther, nice to 'meet' you. :)

I signed up here around the same time as you I think (I didn't introduce myself either, I must admit!) and I always really enjoy reading your posts.

Myself, my husband, and our 3 boys (aged 1, 5 & 7) will be leaving to do our 'big trip' early next year, for however long it takes. We will be getting rid of everything we own expect what we can fit in the caravan, and will settle down again once we've had enough of the road and find a place that feels like home. (hopefully the lack of accumulated 'junk' will remain though) We're really looking forward to it!

Hope to meet you in person sometime. In the meantime, I'll continue to enjoy the glimpses you give us into your life.

Thanks for sharing them.

Skye

Hi Marc,

I replied in your Mulan blog a while back and have tried sending you a member message, but the system doesn't seem to be working. My parents, Alistair and Valerie Peacock, worked at the Mulan School in 1997/8 and taught at the school. My mother taught the primary aged kids while my father asssited Elanor running the school. In 1998 he returned again for first term when Elenor had a broken leg (I think thats what it was). Anyway, do you remember them?

They have many stories from their times there and my mother thought of it as real highlight. Unfortunately my mother took sick after her time there and passed away in late 2000.

Your previous story about helping stranded people reminded me of the many stories my father told. He would always help a stranded traveller and recants the stories of himself getting stuck when bringing in the new school bus to Mulan in 1997 (or maybe 1998). Anyway, your previous thread story certainly had a more personal touch for me.

My father has a heap of photos of his time there, but they are not digial ones and he is still learning his way around a computer. I am currently in the USA for work (another 2 months before we get home) and otherwise would have scanned some pics and sent a few to you (my email address is in My Profile).

I hope to get up there one day in the near future, I wasn't able to in 1997 (my wife was pregnant with our first child) but certainly hope to do so when we return to Perth in Jan 2011. If all goes to plan, in July 2011 we hope to get up to the Kimberlies and surrounding areas.

Cheers

Mark