SKANDI FALCON

Picked her up in Singapore for the best DP job in Australia - inside the Reef at Mackay.

Working with the construction of the extensions to the coal loading facility at Hay Point - calm seas and sunny days!

Then ran around to Dampier to work with pipe-layer, and on to Singapore to lay up pending sale.

Igor (whom I've pinched some pictures from!) ran her back to the UK with his anti-piracy mates, where she was sold off and changed name and colour.

It was a good job, with a great crew, and a fantastic Cook !!

Big Ears !

Big Arse !

Alongside at the sugar terminal Mackay - drunken lorikeets!

Norwegian Captain had nurtured his tree for years in the North Sea

But no-way would this be allowed into Australia, so....

...into the 'deep locker' it goes !

Cosy Bridge - little bit out-of-date, but everything worked

The piles look pretty big when they're on the truck !

Sitting in DP just off the wharf, loading piles

'electronic' mooring lines

best passengers to carry !

Sun-baking off Mackay - nothing for us to do !

Plenty of visitors in the Whitsundays!

Sunday we'd give our great cook a break and have a BBQ!

Handy thing to have on this job!

One of our highly skilled engineers escaped ashore..

Even Easter Bunny turned up

When they didn't need us we'd head out to the islands and anchor up - tough, hard job !

end of contract so over the top of Oz and down to Dampier, WA

Dampiers a dump, after the Reef for 3 years !

Work with this big pipe layer

Then to Singapore, to be sold. Parking a bit of a squeeze for us - just push in anywhere you can !

Another Cook (Indonesian) bites the dust !

My good friend (and Chief Mate, Igor) took her back to Europe, via Suez

Pirate welcoming committee