RJ> The worst fog Ive experienced was between Canberra and Yass. A
 RJ> mate and myself were driving back to Yas one Sunday morning
 RJ> when we "hit" a bank of fog. It was so thick that the only way
 RJ> we could continue was to take it in turns to walk down the
 RJ> middle line with one hand on the bonnet of the car so the
 RJ> driver could follow. As the driver peering through the
 RJ> windscreen, all you could see was a hand and about 3" of sleeve
 RJ> disappearing into the fog.

  I saw one of the most magnificent sights ever, around there on the
way to the snow. It was early in the morning and an incredibly heavy
mist just covered the road and fields, but cows stuck out of it and
you could follow the road by the fences. Totally weird!... to rise up
ou of it and then drop into it, as if the whole thing was unreal.

 RJ> It took us about 4 hours to get to Yass and we found out later
 RJ> that we had "Walked" passed a bloke on a MottoGuzzi that had
 RJ> overtaken us in the fog but failed to negotiate a bend in the
 RJ> road and ended up hung up in a barb-wire fence. He was only
 RJ> about 3 metres from the side of the car when we passed but
 RJ> didn't have a hope of seeing him. The "Guzzi" did its usual
 RJ> trick of turning into a kit when ever hitting anything larger
 RJ> than a shadow and the tow-truck that recovered the bike
 RJ> finished off picking up the bigger bits with a shovel.

  I've been in fog like that coming back from the Bulli Dogs; driving
with the passenger door open so the passenger can tell you when you
run off the road... until you do, and can't find your way back on
again and have to stop and walk around to find out what the hell
happened.

 RJ> There's nothing like coming in through Sydney heads on a patrol
 RJ> boat in a real "pea-souper". Especially when the sub-leiutenant
 RJ> decides to "focus" the screen on the 975 navagational radar and
 RJ> stuffs it up completely. Its even worse, when, as the only
 RJ> electronics technician on board, I'm lashed in my bunk, "dying"
 RJ> from terminal sea-sickness (well, thats how it felt anyway) and
 RJ> half the ships company have to carry me up to the bridge to fix
 RJ> the radar then carry me back to my bunk so I could die in
 RJ> peace.

  ROFL!!! That's the trouble with boats: you can't drive up the hill
and hope it's clear on the other side.

 RJ> It's a worry when you're overtaken by cars in a fog but when
 RJ> you know that the HMAS Melbourne (aircraft carrier) wasn't far
 RJ> behind,you're inclined to sweat a bit. I spent some time on the
 RJ> Melbourne. That was the best time I had in the navy. If you
 RJ> were on the Melbourne, you couldn't get run over by it!

  (chuckle) The Melbourne was good at running things down. Now we know
why... the radar techie was always seasick.

Regards,
Bob
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