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The Virtual CFO on the Road around Australia

Locality: Curra, Queensland, Australia

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25.01.2022 I’ve hooked up with a FB group of people doing the lap. Other’s views, comments, observations and general information has been a great read. I’ve not up until now thought too much about where the best place was to do laundry, and that decision isn’t just price driven. If we had left as planned, we’d be facing the WA fires now. Instead, we delayed and stayed in QLD as it was too hot in SA, but guess what, it is hot again in SA and we will leave to face 40 degrees in both Hopetoun and the Riverland area in SA. Still heading off on Thursday, still aiming for Hopetoun (but $20/night with power now because it will be 40 degrees) but we won’t stay and play on the lake which apparently has blue green algae, rather we will head for Lyrup in SA, another powered site $5/night which they say is a hidden gem.

23.01.2022 In South Australia I was born, heave away, haul away In South Australia it is hotter than norm, but we are bound for South Australia Heat wave rolling in, hauling hot across bitumen And we are bound for South Australia

21.01.2022 Time We don’t have the time to do that. Next time. Of course, there’s plenty of time. I don’t know where my time goes. There’s never enough time. I’ve too much time on my hands. I wish I had more time. There is only so much time. Time acknowledge respect- prioritise be... The delightful compact Ligar Street house is all ready to settle with her new owner. Thank you, Emma, for buying our beautiful home. It’s now The Girl’s time.

15.01.2022 From the ranges to the peninsular via LIFE I am drawn to Snowtown, not sure why but we always seem to stop and ponder here, and this time about 10 metres from the Adelaide to Darwin rail line, but thankfully goon provided the noise reduction solution, and we slept soundly after bidding Dave goodnight. The virtual CFO office was open next morning with a late start, while M did the washing in Clare, then dropped the van in Balaclava to head to Adelaide for root canal, which of ...course wasn’t fun for M. Upside, disturbed by the Fringe Festival’s LIFE, great theatre in great company with Kath and Kev. Kev has a vision for M’s website, Bogans on the Run. Now on the Yorke Peninsular, windy one day, breezing the next but awesome country. I think I could live in Yorketown, all about choice of direction to go fishing and crabbing. We have had our crab meal and Kj has a one that got away story to tell. Playing with the camera, and I do like pelicans.

15.01.2022 The virtual CFO’s office was closed in Lucky Bay due to no Telstra service being available, although there was a quick trip into Esperance for a phone call to the boss to see how the Daikin Dealers meeting went. Most fortunate time at Lucky Bay. Arrived late Tuesday to windy conditions that settled by 8.00 pm and for the remainder of our time, we were blessed with nothing more than a gentle breeze. Having said that, the breeze did whizz through the top camp kitchen and all ch...efs had portable wind breaks to hand in this kitchen. Lucky Bay is all that you read. Yes, kangaroos and coffee vans on the beach. The sand is white as snow and really does squeak under your toes. The waters are crystal clear, three shades of blue in a bay where waves gently break into a clear white wash. But what was spectacular was the bay waters lapping the large granite rocks. We explored the surrounds by car and foot. Other bays and beaches as beautiful as Lucky Bay. 22 kms of drivable beach at Le Grand beach means that you can find a quiet spot on the beach if you seek the solitude that brings or are into cold water skinny dipping. The sea was cold although the sun shone, and it was 26 degrees. Personally, the best amenities ever experienced in a National Park. Bush loos where whirly birds work hard to keep the smell at bay, and solar hot water showers at the days end. A glampground. A magic time. Sunset walks, a lightening show out to sea, reading with the sun on your back and sleeping soundly. But, as beautiful as it was, leaving was easy as the weather was turning, and we have just had our first wild west experience in Esperance. She sure blows here and we head inland tomorrow to escape the school holiday windy times.

14.01.2022 Not disappointed by the Flinders Ranges Ancient and complex country. Perhaps created by the Dreamtime serpents or perhaps created by a geological process taking some 600 million years. Certainly, mystical with ley lines converging at Willow Springs Station and Petroglyphs sighted at Sacred Sites. Certainly, a harsh dry country, marginal land without good rain for some time now, scarce feed, bore water, an abundance of flies, lethargic and forlorn kangaroos listless on the road’s edge and searing summer heat. But certainly, beautiful with its marginal mars landscape and ancient rock tilted, layered, weathered, shifted from movement that created these grand ranges. Mark brought me a canon camera, rather complex and I will need to learn to use it.

13.01.2022 Last Ligar Shed Party

13.01.2022 The virtual CFO enables a small business to benefit from bigger thinking about business without having to employ a BIG person. Other writers say a virtual CFO enables small business to benefit from services they previously couldn’t afford, and they go on to list all these services. In my experience it takes too much time for a small business to afford bigger thinking, perhaps why 80% of business do not get to their 3rd birthday. I’d like to solve that one. I am SAMS virtual ...CFO and have been for 4 years. SAMS is a business operated in QLD by my son. I have resided in Ballarat VIC up until now, but as of next week I am taking the virtual CFO role for SAMS on the road. I have already run payroll from a bar in Bangkok and Singapore in past times, but probably always did a catch up for all else once I landed back on Victorian soil and have not done end of month outside my home office. I have ordered Daikin units using my phone whilst sitting on the banks of the Murray River, and have taken phone calls on the river while my husband oversaw my fishing rod. My office is now a travel bag, bit like the legal eagles roll into court with, only mine is maroon. I’m taking my printer. The back seats in the Colorado have been removed to accommodate my office. I’ll be able to perch on the tail gate with the company lap top plugged into the battery bank in the back of the Colorado for those times, but otherwise I have an office area in the caravan. I’ll be happy to roll into a coffee shop, my phone with Telstra has 50 gigs of data as a mobile hotspot. I've tested my data usage for a month in Curra QLD, I've plenty. We leave Ballarat next week. I’ve noted my possible out of service times on the SAMS job schedule for 3 weeks into the future and will have to continue to do this. Payroll will be my challenge, the boys will need to be paid on time, and out of service will need to work around this. I think I can do that. First out of service might be the Flinders Ranges, but let’s wait and see.

10.01.2022 The Eucalyptus Salmonophloia or Salmon Gum is widespread in the WA wheatbelt, and although we are not in the official wheatbelt region, the SAMS CFO office is open in the town of Salmon Gums where these majestic gums also reside. The pub is for sale. For anyone interested there were 12 of us in the pub on Sunday night for pizza and a glass of Jacob's Creek Shiraz, all travellers with 2 locals drinking beer. Thanks dad, for the tip on Peak Charles. After clearing the first p...art of the road of fallen trees, we were challenged by corrugations the size of ant hills, wash outs and wombat holes that emus could have fitted into. Arriving at Peak Charles we were greeted by the Lord of the March Flies with his harem of ladies who hadn’t eaten in some time and were intent on ripping our flesh apart for their protein. Did anyone know March Flies are attracted to blue? They swarmed around my blue hat like B52 bombers. Yes, correct, no one camping at Peak Charles this time of year, not that we intended to, a day trip with a picnic, but we came home hungry swapping drivers as we came to bitumen so M could have a beer and forget the horrors of the road. Albeit we were challenged by the locals, the country was well worth the drive. The Salmon Gums alone were worth the drenching in Bushman Plus. Recent rains left rock pools. Camels track through this country, but Pete said we would not see them. Small lizards darted out on the road ahead, and one left a lasting impression with us. OMFG Mark, you ran over a lizard! Heading to Lucky Bay tomorrow, to apparently have coffee on the beach with kangaroos. Office will be closed until Friday.

05.01.2022 A little surprised by Esperance. Thought the town was rather dysfunctional in its planning, and the jetty long since unusable. Sally suggested we stay with Mary at the Pink Lake Park. We did at a pension rate. Thanks Mary. Kj opened the SAMS office and spent time in the office. M pottered and with Phil’s permission set up our Aus Pig. The Great Ocean Drive, albeit on a wild and windy day took us from surfing beaches to the shelters of Twilight Beach and past the Pink Lake ont...o the Lucky Bay Brewery for beer tasting, and back to the lake for sunset. Stunning beaches, no doubt, clear blue waters, white sands, granite rock and bended saltbush, sadly alone in these windy parts. Many sea views, many for sale. Our pig burned for the three nights and we were smoking hot while we were there but were happy to leave as the school holiday people arrived. We headed for the golden hills of the west and stayed with Harry in Coolgardie where the miners in residence nearly convinced us, we ought to be prospecting. Harry reckoned the ATO assessed all the Coolgardie pensioners on undeclared gold income, but with Harry not giving us a deal to stay on, digging for gold wasn’t a good prospect. Kalgoorlie, another surprise. Sophisticated retail failing to thrive with shops closed. The influence on yesterdays architecture had us thinking, it seemed colonial, then quite European and even Asian in places. The golden spire shone under a clear blue sky, quite the day for seeing big holes in the ground with all the dirt colours of red, brown, grey and sand. We were educated well by the museum, fed by Paddy’s Tavern at the Exchange Hotel and hydrated with the only goon we could buy in these parts. Free camped at Karalee Rocks as we meander back to the coast, but it is never free, a donation is made as we use the flushing compost toilet that was flushing within an inch of its life with plenty of campers seeking its service. More pig nights, a big storm and then the generators turned up, and that was that. There were times of yesterday that water was more precious than gold in these parts. Like SA, marginal land, thin with no rivers and creeks. What they did to ensure water was supplied is remarkable, and Karalee was part of this, with its granite rock dam. The storm and cold front sees us plugged in at the back of the Carrabin Pub, over the rainbow in the WA wheat belt seeking our rock formations and checking out a quirky museum in Westonia. The Office has been closed for Easter Happy Easter!

04.01.2022 The Gawler Ranges are apparently some of the oldest country on this planet. The Park is famous for the Organ Pipes and other rock formations created over 1600 million years ago as a result of volcanic eruptions. This country is beautiful and harsh. Arid colours of red dirt, sparse mulga, granite rock columns and the sometimes sea of blue bush. Harsh conditions at present, roos simply laying down and dying. Few people. Campground to ourselves but did catch up with a contract s...hooter at Kolay Hut who was shooting feral cats, foxes and goats, but also the roos. We saw many bones. Night stars were simply awesome. Although harsh conditions, you felt a sense of peacefulness, like the country, so old, had come to terms with itself, or perhaps it was the endless silence. The virtual CFO’s office was shut for the weekend whilst we were in the ranges but open again for payroll in Poonchera on Monday. Now shucking ourselves silly in Smokey Bay. Not today says Willy weather but we have had calm seas and blue skies. The hunter gatherer has been bringing in a sea bounty for us whilst the SAMS office has been open all week in and around jetty recreational pursuits. We are hanging with our WA neighbours to cross the Nullarbor from Sunday, they with precious sea cargo, we with anticipation. The fishing has been good, no whiting or blue swimmers in WA so Smokey Bay full of Western Australians with tinnies on roofs and caravans. Home is Baldwins.

04.01.2022 I am always thinking, where will we be for end of month? End of month needs WIFI and computer time. The SAMS CFO office was open for end of month at the 4 Mile Campground in the Fitzgerald River National Park, maybe 15 kms out of Hopetoun in WA. Great WIFI, a hot shower and bush loo courtesy of the WA National Parks, and the endless sound of waves. The office was run on battery and solar for the April end of month. The sun shone for the laptop each morning and I took power ou...t as fast as the solar panel was pumping it in. We arrived at 4 Mile through the wheat belt from Carrabin to Ravensthorpe. I like the inner country and this country, although thin and dry has grand stories, solid people and the vibrant gum colours. The gums are bronze here, and beautiful to see as they whizz past our windows. We educate ourselves on WA wheat growing and yak with locals, and shop is a great IGA at Merredin. Wave Rock, a tourist icon was not to be missed even if the admission seemed somewhat out of place. We had seen as good west of Carrabin where there was no price tag attached. We have seen very little inland water with exception to the man-made dams.

02.01.2022 Why some say Nullaboring doesn’t make sense. We breathed in the entire 1200 km of the Nullarbor trek, from inception on the wrong dirt road out of Denial Bay (Kj’s bull dust scenic route) to the woodlands of the Fraser Ranges. We were blessed with calm mornings and some tail winds. A high in the Bight. Two sunsets at the Bundar Cliffs with little to no breeze but surprisingly few people, with exception to a Brazilian trying to get his international dad across the sandy entran...ce to the campground. It did not end well, and all hands were on deck to get the Apollo van out of the sand. SAMS office closed for the week although Daikin orders were whizzed off from the office outside the Nullarbor Roadhouse on Monday. We sat out the threat of storms at the Cocklebiddy Roadhouse, ate the last of the SA oysters and drank the last of the Spurgles. It did rain, rain on the Nullarbor plain, or near enough, and we awoke to a creepy Steven King’s the Mist morning on Thursday. Now in Salmon Gums (and amazing gum trees) with Sally looking after us, and off to Lucky Bay next Tuesday.