Thread: 60 Day Tourist Visa In Sydney

Tiggy,
I have the beer, the ice and the esky. Do you want me to be waiting at the Ngurah Rai airport?

Ha ha ha great idea no.idea ;), but someone has beat you to the punch on that one. My mate who's picking me up rang me this week and asked "do you want me to bring anything to the airport". I told him to think about that for a moment really hard - saya mau dua besar san miguel and a vehicle for all my gear and we are sweet.

Will take you up on it another time for sure though :D. I have 2 years of not drinking to make up for haha (i'm scared)

(Sorry for the thread hijack OP - its a slow day at work and I'm getting all excited :D)

Originally Posted by Tiggy

Yup money order, KTP card copy, letter, passport and form all sent last week when I got to escape for a few days for a work trip. Phew, had me a bit worried there. Now I just have to pray they don't make the 2-4th November a random indonesian holiday so I can pick it all up while I transit Darwin.

I live in a Indigenous community called Kaltukatjara (whitefella name is Docker River). We are in the bottom corner of the NT, about 7kms to WA and 20kms to SA borders. Way out bush! Its a small place with a transient population of 200-400, and less than 20 whitefellas that work for various agencies providing services. Nearest civilisation is at Ayers Rock resort 250kms down a crappy dirt road, and Alice is our closest real town at 750kms by road. Lovely place - in the middle of old ranges but rather remote. Been out here a bit over 2 years now - soooo looking forward to trading the desert for the tropics (and being legally allowed to have a beer) :D

You will have no problems with your visa.
So you live in a dry community, I never enjoyed the communities in the center, liked the one's near the coast or islands you can do a lot more fishing. Some of the cattle stations we really nice.
so what do you do in the middle of never never land? apart from not having happy hour?

Fred, it has been an interesting experience being out here. I hear ya on the being far from water - top end was going to be my next stop. Love fishing and diving and swimming and all that sorta stuff. Not a big fan of being stuck in the wet though - prefer sandhill and rockhopping 4wd'ing. The mob up there are totally different to my desert mob as well - a fair bit more motivated and have different challenges. Cattle stations would be interesting - never really been but grew up on a horse property.

As to what I do... well that is a very challenging question to answer. It's more like what don't I do haha. I am officially the site manager of the JSA (employment services), but since we are actually non profit community owned, and so far from town with very low literacy we do FAR more!! Combo of social worker, mother, evil woman with a cattle prod, advocate, translator, job and training organiser, training facilitator, centrelink agent, fines fixer, licence getter, banker + managing employees and normal manager bs paperwork crap.

It is dry, but in my package I get fortnightly respite weekends in a suite at Ayers Rock hotel where me and the other whitefellas go and binge drink, er I mean relax. In spare time I play xbox, go 4wd'ing (some AWESOME country out here), read, and work on my bach behavioural science degree.

You do much fishing? I've never been fishing in bali.