Troy’s Random Ramblings

Back in Sydney again. Had a reasonable first week at sea, it was surprisingly calm of the east coast of Australia this past week, very strange indeed.

The coming week might be a little bit worse, but at least we are not playing war games until Thursday.

With any luck we should have email at sea this week too.

Wahoo!!

First full day at sea. Some people are not feeling the best, others are taking great delight in torturing those that are feeling green.

Thankfully I’m not doing too bad, just a minor head cold that is giving me a bit of grief.

We head into Eden on the NSW south coast tomorrow to get some ammunition. Later we head up the coast a bit further to shoot some of it.

Well, it’s goodbye to Melbourne. I sail from Melbourne today and the ship is heading for its new home port of Sydney. It’s been a a busy seven weeks and seems to have flown by. The commissioning ceremony on the 26th was well received by all who attended. The open day on the 27th was an outstanding success with what must have been nearly 2000 people visiting the ship and having a look through it.

More later ….

Well my first week on the ship has been and gone.

Very, very busy week. I need to get some of those 28 hours days, there just never seems to be enough time to do everything.

Had a damage control exercise today as part of my duty. It didn’t go too bad all things considered. Still a long way to go, but it’s all good experience.

Not looking forward to getting up in the wee hours of the morning to do rounds, but them’s the breaks.