Sharks!!

I have experienced a few first on Barrow Island since my last post. One of those latest is SHARKS! Last Sunday while most were off half of the day, me and a co-worker Ryan took our project controls truck for a drive to go and get it washed. The truck is a new Toyota 4 door truck with a utility bed 4WD. they call them Utes our here and all of them have radios installed on them for you have to announce a light vehicle entering certain roads. More on trucks later. We adventured up to the north side of the island where Ryan was going to show me the beach and the main MOF. Material Offload Facility. This place has a few huge cranes for offloading TEUs (Transport equipment Units, basically 20ft conex boxes with a bunch of stuff in them for the site). well beside that is one of the most beautiful white sand beaches in a little cove with Rock cliffs on both sides of it. The beach is only about 200 yards wide and is a small beach tucked in the cove but still beautiful with the water crystal blue. Ryan said the tides were down so we probably wouldn't see anything. Just then I spotted a 8 ft dark object in about 3 ft of water. I said is that a SHARK and he said no way. The big ones don't come in that shallow. Then the fin came out and it started getting more shallow, (about 30 yards off shore). Then in front of it we spotted 2 more sharks about 5ft long in the real shallow part about 2ft deep about 20 yards of shore. It was neat and nice to take in Australia's beauty for all that it is. Then it was back to reality and we rushed back to the truck to go get it washed. The truck is covered from top to bottom in red dust which everything is out here but we are still required to wash each bright white truck. We managed to get it looking descent as we used our time well in our 1 hour slot in the wash bay. The wash bay is basically a concrete loading bay that you back in that has a high pressure water sprayer that we use an eye shield with safety glasses on. Safety first of course. Then it was back to the office taking the seal roads( dirt roads with a thin layer of coating with rocks on top) to keep the truck clean of course so the boss could be proud when he saw it the next morning. Well that's the sharks and the truck story.

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