First Week in Australia
[Photos from 14 March to 20 March 2015. Blogged on 06 April 2015. Your mileage may vary.]
Since we spent the majority of each day in the factory, not a lot of pictures got taken. Mostly they’re of food and lodging. Oh well… (36 images total)
Saturday 14 March 2015

A beautiful day to spend indoors. We showed up pretty early to turn all the machinery on, and then left it to warm up.
Sunday 15 March 2015

Happily, I woke up early enough to take a short stroll on the beach. This was pretty much the last chance because we were about to check out.

Later that day we checked into the Parkhaven Motor Lodge. We had the three upper rooms pictured.

The view to the right. Those trees housed a gazillion birds, who all woke up before seven. Loudly. The dinner that night was fish and chips!
Monday 16 March 2015

On Monday, we were joined by a couple of local (Sydney) Marel people, a sales-guy and a technician. We ended up getting dinner together at the Nowra Steakhouse, which had fine steaks, but somewhat dodgy decor.
Tuesday 17 March 2015

Behind our hotel was this nice park, which explained all the birds. We walked past it on the way to the mall after work.

There was a huge number of these white birds there (cockatoos?), and one morning we were driving by, they filled almost all the power-lines along the street.
Thursday 19 March 2015

As we were getting some take-away hamburgers for dinner, one of the servers told us of this place where kangaroos like to hang out. So we drove there! And found kangaroos!

None of the houses there were really fenced in, so the kangaroos just seemed to be allowed to roam about.
Friday 20 March 2015

The optimized breakfast: Bacon, scrambled eggs, banana bread, and avocado on the side. Sparkling water with, and mocha afterwards. This was proven to last well into the day.

We moved on over to the mall proper, bought more groceries, and rewarded ourselves with some serve-yourself ice cream.

That evening we went to a Thai place for dinner, and as we were eating, we remembered there was supposed to be a partial solar eclipse in Iceland. So we went online, and found the live broadcast, which…
Saturday 21 March 2015