Bechtel... Curtis Island... A Family Day

a bag full of goodies

Pirates , delicious free food, live music, sunshine....a perfect start.

pirate..with chicken on his hat!

then a stroll through the park to the ferry. 

this is how they used to arrive on Curtis Island not so many months ago....

earlier ferry to Curtis Island

boat to Bechtel plant, Curtis Island, Qld

and this is how the 6000 workers commute now.

14 seats across, 3 TV screens in this section, same number 

of seats in front section, plus same again on top . HUGE! 

a small section inside the ferry , to Curtis Island

......it was a tough commute to the office.......

(though I must admit that at 5am in the morning it would be different!)

.....we had to dodge the local traffic....

and then we caught our first site of 'the tanks'.

LNG tanks, Curtis Island , Gladstone, Queensland

there are a few ferries and they do a couple of dozen trips every day, 

so docking and manoevering  was speedy and seamless. 

and then all 500 of  us disembarked and shuffled down the walkway

 to a dozen waiting buses for our 'tour'.

following the same route that our relatives take every time they come 

or go from work. It was certainly eye-opening! and time-consuming!

but fascinating! 

Source : The Courier-Mail

..... more tomorrow!

                                                 Jo x


In a strange coincidence, when my son found out that he was to start work on the APLNG site, I was googling Curtis Island and stumbled across a blog written by a lass whose husband had been transferred to Gladstone from the US. A couple of months back I mentioned that I'd love to see the construction site...and I'd found some fascinating info on the 'Curtis-Gladstone lifestyle for a worker' on this blog ...it turns out that Katie and Nick from the US and my son have become great mates  ...he even appears in the blog!

So for a great explanation of the APLNG project and the commute to work... click  here

and look...there's more!

The Paramedic Boat

pretty impressive...see that little white box at the front....that's thigh height.

Seriously though... it's nice to know that if there's an emergency they'd be able to fit half the site on board!

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