Working and Traveling Australia, Our Journey.

[wakychapmans]

congrats guys...

following you every step (trying to not sound like a stalker) and taking notes.

[Barrabart]

Plenty of barra around the rivers of Peppimenarti also.
Mark

Well that's the essentials taken care of then....... 

[speewa158]

The Old Moil river ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[KingBilly]

Congrats Mark and Penny.  Just looked Peppimenarti up on wikipedia.  Population 190-250.

Have fun and good luck.

KB

[Burnsy]

Well done, looks like a great base for adventuring from.

[xcvator]

Our interview went well and we have been employed as managers of a remote store at Peppimenarti in the NT. Its 100 klms west of Daly River.

We arrive there this Friday after a night at Daly River. Plenty of barra around the rivers of Peppimenarti also.



Mark

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So when are getting fishing lessons, or will I come and show you how 

[McGirr]

The sunsets just keep getting better out here at Peppimenarti NT.





Mark

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[jwb]

Nice!

[crappsy]

You really are having a hard time of it and all aren't you mate.

[McGirr]

You really are having a hard time of it and all aren't you mate.

Its a hard life. Enjoying our adventures and this place seems to be the best, so far. We are looking at staying here for a few years.

Will post up more pics down the track.

Mark

[McGirr]

So our accomodation here at Peppimenarti is a 3 bedroom house on approx 950m2 block. I even have a ride on mower, just need to learn to drive it. Already hit a tree and the fence.

Nice and comfortable and only a 4 min drive to the community store in the company dual cab hilux.

Really enjoy this place. Very friendly community.

Pics of the store to come.







Mark

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[woolgoolgaoffroad]

great Mark- just saw the post on FB.....

nearly puts a seed into my head to do the same....

[McGirr]

great Mark- just saw the post on FB.....

nearly puts a seed into my head to do the same....

There is plenty of work out there. Due to our remote experiance we had 2 jobs to pick from and chose this one.

Mark

[GeoffA]

Looks pretty good Mark...

[McGirr]

Looks pretty good Mark...

Its a challenge for us running a store but only being small its a great start. Penny does all the computer side of things which she excells at and I do all the ordering as well as drive the forklift, stack the shelves, check out of date stock etc. Its long hours but we enjoy it. We are always busy.

We have a chef working in the commercial kitchen, full time,  and we open till 8.00pm Thursday nights as every week we either have a pizza night, roast and lamb shanks with vegies and a chicken parma night. You guessed it we dont cook that night.

We are getting to know all the names of the community people and they are very freindly. They even have a small club that serves mid strength beer. We are allowed to have alcohol here as we have a permit.

Its only 320 klms to Darwin and the chef is heading there in 3 weeks for a weekend. Hope she has plenty of room for our alcohol order. 

Mark

[GeoffA]

It appears you and Penny have landed in a little slice of heaven. 
Very pleased for you both.

[listo]

Sounds like you guys are onto a good thing there Mark, we look forward to hearing how you guys get on there. Sounds like you'd be better off back out in the desert with that ride on though! 

[SambOz]

G'day Mark,

Sounds like a good job, hope all goes well, very nice sunset pics, what colours ! !
We camped on the Daly in 1981, never got to Peppimenarti though, liked the area and caught Barra and saw plenty of Buffs.  . The local fuzz at D/River was from the Latrobe Valley, VIC at that time & had a tracker/offsider living in a tin hut behind the house.

Re mower, must be a zero turn, you wouldn't have trouble with anything else - hint, don't let it get rolling to fast, take a little time and work on speed later.  Best way known to man to mow grass, other than watching cows do it.lol.

[McGirr]

Went for a short drive to the huge floodplains here at Peppimenarti.



Plenty of horses grazing plus birdlife.



Looking forward to the wet season when its covered in water. Also the big crocs hang around there when the water is up.

Some idea on how small and spread out the community is. The blue dot is where we live. The image is old as there is more tarred road.





The shop is a 2 min drive from home.



Mark

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[McGirr]

So here are some pics of the store we manage. Its just on a year old.









The commercial kitchen





Mark

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[alnjan]

Looks better then some supermarkets I know

[GeoffA]

That's pretty impressive Mark...

[D4D]

Impressive, you've faced up the shelves well

[McGirr]

Impressive, you've faced up the shelves well

I do my best. 

The only staff we have is Penny and I running the store and Selena who runs the kitchen doing the meals.  We have a number of locals that work casual to help us out.

We are slowly building up stock for the wet season as the roads get closed and had 14 pallets come in on Thursday. Thankfully I had some help to break them down.

We get a roadtrain every Thursday from Darwin and its handy having a forklift. At the back of the warehouse we have 2 x 20 ft shipping containers we use as freezers to store bread and meat for 4 months plus another large shed that's insulated to store all the extra dry goods.

Over the coming months we will start building up the orders. We also sell fuel so I have to make sure that the fuel is topped to the brim prior to when the roads close which could be from Sept / Oct. The tanks carry 40,000 ltrs of Diesel and 20,000 ltrs of unleaded.

We will also fly in the fresh produce and dairy products once the roads close.

Mark

[speewa158]

Whats the price of fuel out that way