> Hi All,

> Well it's clean-up time again in my local area. The council (local
> government) sent out fliers telling all housholds to put any unwanted junk
> out on the side of the road. This happens twice a year over here in
> Sydney, you'd be amazed what people will throw away!

> So far this week I recovered eight 8'x 4'x 4mm sheets of exterior
> luanne(sp?) ply, with not a mark on them. One very expensive collapsable
> golf cart (soon to be a kayak cart), and one mountan bike (ok, so I got
> all the bits for a mountain bike from different junk heaps & spent an
> hour or so making it all into one bike). And this was just stuff from my
> own street.

> People tend to put all this stuff out at night, then first thing in the
> morning there's a bunch of guys in trucks cruising around loading anything
> thats worth $, and a lot of residents who suddenly decide to go for early
> morning strolls and come home carrying all manner of stuff. This all goes
> on for a week or two until the council trucks come and take everything
> away.

> Just HAD to tell someone. The wife was less than enthusiastic when I told
> her I've got enough materials to build two more S&G kayaks. She just said
> "Thats nice dear" and sort of looked heavenward...

> Paul.

Paul, we're doing the very same thing right now in Fresno, California, USA. We've been doing it here for several years. You'd also be surprized at how much of those treasures end up back out in the trash piles the following year. People see it, take it and then wonder, " what the heck was I thinkin." Sounds like you make an exceptional score. It's been a great ambition of mine to get over there and see some of your neck of the woods. Would love to see the Coral Reef from a kayak. Thinkin about a glass bottom. :) Hope to see those "free" kayaks some time in the future. BTW, that heavenward look was just the little woman thanking God that she'll have you home every night for a couple of years while you finish those Yaks. lol

Rehd