Jim again...
Been a couple of days since I posted. We departed for Shetland Islands and have since flown back and gotten a day off in Perth. Shetland was an unbelievable island. There are more sheep there than people. At Shetland, my vocational day with Casey was a visit to Solum Voe refinery project. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2014 and will cost 5.5 billion pounds, or only 8 billion dollars. When gas production is completed, 40 years from now, the site will need to be restored to its original condition. For this reason 76 million tons of Peat is being stored on the site in dams. They are amazing structures. The site ranges in elevation from 12 meters to 72 meters on a set of benches. Amazingly, they work four weeks on and two weeks off and live at the site. In fact, a whole city was built to house the workers with a gym, hospital and several cafeteria's.
My host family, Martin Gloria and Michael were great. They had a little dog Poppy, too. Martin owns his own garage and Land Rover franchise. I can't thank them enough for what they did for me. It was a wonderful time on Shetland.
Now off to Crieff, bye for now.
Jim
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