Bindoon

yeah, and then you do the, I think we did the 3.2, maybe the morning, maybe that morning, like we've done the 3.2. Then we run down and do the swim.

Then we get on the coaches to go to Bindoon and that's when it's about to start.

Yeah,

right.

And they, I don't think they do it anymore, but like one of the, I think even guys are pulling off at this point where you get off the bus at the front gate of the Bindoon.

army training facility not the within bindoon there's like a sf1 yeah yeah the actual like training facility training area is massive and they just drop you at the front and they're like take your stretcher you pack all your belongings and march up to what would become now is the embassy yes and yeah that was a bit of a ball terror actually i don't know how far it is it takes over an hour easily just to walk up there and you're carrying all this stuff and Did some guys withdraw? I think so.

It was at night.

We lost a number of guys just in the Wi-Fi phase.

Alanooka had thirty-eight, Arena twenty-five, Aradale twenty-six, Badgingarra twenty-seven, Eneabba thirty-eight, Erdu twenty-three, Erangee Springs also had twenty-three, Geraldton thirty-two, Green Grove thirty-three, Irwin House thirty-five, Jurien Bay thirty-four, Mingenew twenty, Port Denison forty-eight, Strawberry thirty-three, Table Top thirty-one, Tibbrattan thirty, and Wardarri East had twenty-nine.

In the Lower West, uh, Anketell twenty-five, Bickley twenty-one, Bindoon also had twenty-one, Bolgart twenty-six, Dwellingup forty-two, Garden Island had fifty-three, Gidgegannup twenty-six, Gingin West thirty-two, Gleneagle twenty-eight, Jandakot twenty-five, Jarrahdale twenty-two, Karnup twenty-three, Karagulla North twenty-four, Lake Chittering twenty, Mandurah twenty-eight, Millandan thirty-five, Minstin Park forty-four, Moolicbene twenty-seven, Mundah Brook thirty, Muchea twenty-one, Mundaring thirty-one, Pinjarra thirty-three, Wanneroo twenty-five, Waroona twenty-six, Werribee twenty, and Whiteman Park had twenty-three.

Then in the southwest, Balingup twenty, Ferguson Valley twenty-two, Harvey thirty-two, McAlinden twenty, Mount William twenty-two, Myalup twenty-eight, and Worsley Downs had twenty-one.

Bit less in the southern coastal area, so it's ten and above.

So in 2005, we sold the station.

By 2006, I realized I couldn't live permanently in Perth, and we, uh, we sold the unit the kids had been in through uni, and I bought a little farm north of Bindoon.

Um, and I had sheep there, and, and I still had the little place in Fremantle, so I'd go up and down and, and I loved it.

I planted...

So yeah, I never quite got used to the city, and it's only the last two years that I've, since I sold the farm, that I've had to get more used to it.

[laughs]

Parts of Bindoon is quite hilly, so-

Yeah