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In the last episode of Pelican's Progress, we crossed Bass Strait and flew right around
Tasmania.
In the next leg of our aerial circumnavigation of the continent, we leave the cold southern
seas and head for warmer parts.
We start here at Wilson's Promontory.
First of all we go along the 90-mile beach of Victoria, past the Gippsland Lakes, and
along here to Point Hicks where Captain Cook first sighted the mainland of Australia.
Round Cape Howe, up the coast of New South Wales, all the little bays and headlands,
Batemans Bay, up to Wollongong.
And then of course to Sydney, Port Jackson and Broken Bay, the estuary of the Hawkesbury.
Further on up here we go over the Mile Lakes and then on up the beautiful north coast of
New South Wales as far as Cape Byron, which is the easternmost point of the Australian
continent.
So we round Cape Byron and finish this episode at Surfers Paradise there.
To start our journey up the east coast of the continent, we head past Wilson's Promontory,
the southernmost tip of the Australian mainland.
The far side of the prom where the camping area is situated is reasonably sheltered,
but this side of the rugged mountainous promontory is exposed to the full force of the weather
that blows in from the Tasman Sea.
There's no access by land except for a few narrow walking tracks.
And so this side of the prom remains without even the slightest mark of occupation.
It looks today exactly as it did in those first years after the settlement of the colony,
when the sealers would seek shelter in these bays to process their catch, boil down the
blubber and take on fresh water.
The low wind pruned vegetation along the beaches shows the effects of the almost constant onshore
winds, driving in from somewhere south of New Zealand.
Now as we turn northeast and begin our run along one of the straightest features of the
entire continent, the 90 mile beach, we feel a change in the air.
All along the south coast from Western Australia to Tasmania, we've pushed through cool moisture
laden winds from the southern ocean, while below us great rollers crashed against the
battered coastline.
Now the onshore breeze is mild and the surf flows gently up the sand.
But now we're coming under the influence of the vast ocean that the early navigators
called the Pacific, the peaceful one.
This long amazingly straight coastline was formed by the action of the sea in depositing
a continuous frontal sand dune, which has become colonised and anchored by plants.
The continuous frontal dune has blocked the coastal drainage systems and formed a series
of freshwater lakes and swamps just behind the beach.
The swampy hinterland makes access to the beach difficult and so there are no large
settlements along 90 mile beach, only the occasional holiday hut or fisherman's shack.
Towards the midpoint of the 90 mile beach at some time in the past, the frontal dune
blocked off some very large tidal lagoons, at first temporarily and eventually permanently.
This series of large connected waterways is now called the Gippsland Lakes and they've
become one of the most popular holiday resorts in Victoria.
The large wooded peninsula projecting into Lake Victoria is Sperm Whale Head, the nucleus
of the Lakes National Park.
Long protected from the development that cleared the countryside around the Gippsland Lakes,
the park is an oasis for wildlife of all kinds.
Besides the tens of thousands of Victorians who come to the lakes for a holiday, many
people have decided to settle down here in small lakeside towns like Painesville.
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Past Paynesville, Lake King gives way to a chain of shallow lagoons.
And then finally we find a break in the endless beachfront.
An opening to the sea.
In fact, this opening at Lakes entrance is the only break in the entire length of the 90 mile beach.
And the only outlet from the Gibson and Lakes to the sea.
Originally this opening was blocked by a sandbar.
Where the lakes occasionally broke through to the sea after heavy rains or high tides.
The present permanent channel was dredged in 1890.
To provide access by ship for the inhabitants of Lakes entrance which was first settled about 1850.
A sign that we're nearing the end of the 90 mile beach is the mouth of a large river.
It enters the sea in a very modest way for one of our most famous rivers.
For this is the snowy.
Here it seems barely recognisable as the tumbling snow fed mountain torrent by Kosciuszko's side.
That inspired Banjo Paterson and the snowy mountain hydroelectric ski.
With the change in the nature of the landscape as we approach the foothills of the eastern highlands,
the shoreline also changes.
Rocky points interrupt the beach.
And on one we find a large colony of fur seals.
This is a welcome sign that the population of these delightful mammals is rebuilding along our southern coastline.
After the uncontrolled slaughter that almost wiped them out soon after first settlement.
The coastal dunes are now much higher and densely vegetated.
But underneath there's still pure sand.
It was the white streaks of blowouts at this point that were glimpsed through rain squalls at 6am on the morning of April the 19th 1770.
By a young lieutenant named Hicks on board Captain Cook's ship Endeavour.
It was Cook's first landfall on the east coast of Australia.
I've named it Point Hicks because Hicks was the first who discovered this land, wrote Cook in his journal,
before turning north to follow the coastline.
Cook was not particularly impressed by his first historic glimpse of the continent that his exploration was about to open up.
What we have as yet seen of this land, he wrote, appears rather low and not very hilly.
The face of the country green and woody, but the seashore is all white sand.
And so we come to the only sizeable indentation on the east coast of Victoria, Malacuta Inlet,
with the little fishing and holiday resort of Malacuta itself sheltering behind the sandbar.
The inlet, a drowned river valley, winds back through wooded ridges for more than 20 kilometres.
All this is now included in Malacuta Inlet National Park,
where there are many peaceful loops and backwaters to explore by boat or along graded walking tracks.
Welcome!
Close to the Victorian border with New South Wales, a low island appears, one of the very
few offshore islands along the entire southeast coast.
This is Gabo Island, whose lighthouse has been a landmark for shipping since early times,
and is still a key checkpoint for navigators in the Sydney Hobart yacht race.
Gabo is made of red granite, and this distinctive material was formerly quarried here and was
used in many public buildings in Australia.
Past Gabo Island we sight an eerie wall of mist advancing on the coast.
This is sea fog, and it occurs occasionally in this area when warm, moist northeast winds
blow across a cold sea current from the south.
It's not often seen elsewhere in Australian waters, and it adds a hint of mystery to the
coastline.
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Through gaps in the mist, it's obvious that the coastline is becoming steadily more rugged.
The wide flat rock platforms at the base of the cliffs are formed where a harder layer
of rock exists just below tidal level.
Through a break in the mist, we sight the first signs of human occupation.
At the edge of Twofold Bay, close to the site of the last whaling station in New South Wales,
stands the Eden Woodchip Mill, dominated by the stockpile of eucalypt chips awaiting shipment
to Japan.
New South Wales differs from all other sections of the Australian coastline in having a very
narrow continental shelf, almost totally lacking in rocky islands.
One of the very few is Montague Island, but it lies barely two kilometres off the coast,
and its smoothly rounded domes are really an outcrop of granite cut off from the mainland
by the rise in sea level a few thousand years ago.
The GPO in Sydney is built of grey granite quarried here.
Ula Dulla is another small fishing town, named like so many places on the south coast with
an aboriginal word.
Ula Dulla means safe harbour.
Most of the fresh fish sold in Sydney is landed here.
Approaching Kiama, we come to some of the most spectacular coastal cliffs in New South
Wales.
These were formed from basalt, molten rock that poured out from inside the earth more
than 200 million years ago, and spread out to form the coastal plain.
When the basalt solidified, it developed vertical faults, like the dollarite in Tasmania, and
where the seas are cutting it back, it collapses in huge blocks to produce these tumble cliffs.
Quite suddenly, north of Kiama, the cliffs subside, and a large industrial complex sprawls
across the narrow plain between the coast and the Escarpment.
This is Port Kembla, Australia's largest iron and steel making centre, the powerhouse of
the city of Wollongong, stretching into the haze beyond.
Port Kembla came into existence nearly 100 years ago, when a small jetty was built to
ship coal from the nearby Illawarra Range.
Some industries were set up here in the early 1900s, but the real impetus came in 1935,
when BHP took over the existing steelworks and began a massive expansion.
Today, the integrated plant here has more than 20 furnaces, employs 20,000 people, and
has a capacity of more than five and a half million tonnes of steel a year.
To supply the furnaces, there's a never-ending turnaround of bulk carriers, delivering ore
from Wai'ala and the Pilbara, or taking on fabricated steel products.
Bulk carriers waiting their turn are a familiar sight off Port Kembla.
A less well-known sight on the sea off Wollongong are these huge birds.
This is the fabled wandering albatross, which spends most of its life riding the winds far
out at sea.
In winter, these majestic birds gather off Wollongong to catch the huge cuttlefish, which
come into the shallow inshore waters here, apparently to breed.
But for some years now, the hunters have themselves been hunted by a Port Kembla worker, who also
happens to be a dedicated naturalist.
Doug Gibson devised for himself an ingenious way of catching and studying these huge albatrosses,
the largest of all seabirds, with a wingspan up to three and a half metres.
Heavily weighted with cuttlefish, the birds are slow to take flight, and Doug Gibson's
homemade casting net rarely misses.
Gibson and his helpers have caught and tagged hundreds of these shy birds, at the same time
recording details of their sex, age and other measurements.
Before release, the captive is given a splash of harmless dye, so that it won't be caught
again in the same season.
This washes off in a few weeks.
Doug Gibson's records have proved of enormous interest and value to ornithologists everywhere,
because the wandering albatross is one of the hardest birds in the world to study.
It nests on only a few remote islands near the Antarctic, and little is known about its
travels around the southern oceans.
Gibson has already shown that many birds come back to this feeding ground year after year.
Some he's caught were banded as nestlings by American and Russian scientists on South
Georgia Island, 14,000 kilometres away across the southern hemisphere in the South Atlantic.
These fascinating visitors have been coming to our east coast for a very long time.
Joseph Banks observed them feeding here as Captain Cook passed this way in 1770.
And it's only through the efforts of people like Doug Gibson we've learned something about
the global patterns of their wanderings.
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Wollongong, the seventh largest city in Australia, sprawls across the narrow coastal plain.
Like many south coast towns, it has only a small harbour sheltering behind a rocky point.
North of Wollongong, the highlands come right to the coast in a steep escarpment.
Somewhat unexpectedly, the short stretch of coastline between Wollongong and Sydney is
almost free of development and retains its original wild character.
This is because much of this coast lies within the Royal National Park.
This, the first national park in Australia, was declared just a hundred years ago in 1879.
This was only a few years after the dedication of Yellowstone National Park in the United
States and it makes Australia only the second country in the world to set land aside for
public use as a national park.
The coastal approach to what many would call the most historic site in Australia is not
particularly impressive. Today, Kernel Peninsula is dominated by oil refineries and it's not
easy to picture this scene in 1770 when Cook sighted an opening into a large bay and decided
that here was the place to make his first landing on the newly discovered coastline.
This he did on the little beach backed with trees to the left just inside the entrance
to what Cook later called Botany Bay. Sydney has a worldwide reputation for its
harbour side setting but few, including the majority of its residents, are perhaps aware
of its even more dramatic confrontation with the ocean.
The cliffs along here have been carved by the seas from the tremendously thick layer
of sandstone that makes up the Sydney Basin. These rocks were laid down some 200 million
years ago as sand and sediment in a huge freshwater lake.
The same uplift along the east coast which created the Australian Alps and Mount Kosciusko
also tilted up the sandstone bed of the Sydney Basin to form the Blue Mountains in the west.
These cliffs now form the eastern edge of the basin and gaps are being nibbled in it
by the sea to produce among other beaches the one and only Bondi.
As Cook sailed north past these cliffs he saw an opening but didn't bother to explore
it and sailed off. Of course he couldn't see over South Head as we can into one of the
finest and most spacious harbours in the world.
One reason why Sydney Harbour is so freely navigable is that it's not a shallow bay
dotted with sand banks but a deep rocky drowned river valley.
When the Sydney Basin was uplifted a few million years ago the rivers flowing into it cut deep
channels through the sandstone to the sea and when the sea level rose more than 100
metres as the ice caps melted at the end of the last ice age the ocean invaded the converging
river valleys to produce the harbour and its many arms.
When the sea level reached its present height some 6000 years ago North Head was at first
an island cut off from the mainland.
Since then wave action has filled in the channel which once ran through from the sea to the
harbour where the centre of Manly now stands.
North of the heads extends a succession of sandy beaches curving between rocky headlands.
These have been gouged out of the sandstone by the scouring action of the tides which
swirl through these indentations like water in a hand basin to create the notorious rips.
In recent years these beaches and headlands have become Sydney's fastest growing and most
popular waterfront suburbs.
The Palm Beach Peninsula encloses the broad expanse of pit water an arm of broken bay.
The peninsula ends with the striking formation of Barron Joey Head. It's easy to see that
Barron Joey like North Head was also once an island. It's only become linked by its
sand spit to the peninsula quite recently in geological terms perhaps a few thousand
years ago.
Like Sydney Harbour itself pit water provides safe and sheltered conditions for all kinds
of water sports.
On a Sunday afternoon pit water seems just as busy as pit street in the rush hour.
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Beyond Barron Joey at the tip of the Palm Beach Peninsula lies Broken Bay named by Captain
Cook for its jagged shape. Broken Bay marks the entrance not only of pit water but of
the Hawkesbury River an entrance guarded by the stone sentinel of Lion Island.
Like Sydney Harbour Broken Bay is a drowned river mouth in this case the Hawkesbury which
emerges from steep and densely forested sandstone country. For a long time after the settlement
of Sydney the Hawkesbury was a barrier to travel to the north coast. The steel arch
road bridge on the Pacific Highway at Peet's Ferry on the right was not completed until
1945. The new concrete bridge on the left was opened in 1973 as part of the Sydney New
Castle Freeway. The freeway has yet to be completed but north of the Hawkesbury a section
of it sweeps across the rugged sandstone ridges.
The tidal backwaters of the lower Hawkesbury are one of the main oyster farming centres
in New South Wales despite the silt brought down after heavy rains. Because of the rough
terrain the sandstone country beside the Hawkesbury as it nears Broken Bay remains as natural
and unchanged as it ever was cut by peaceful streams like Patonga Creek.
It comes almost as a surprise to discover the little settlement of Patonga itself and
to realise that it lies just across Broken Bay from the bustle of Palm Beach.
Beneath the sandstone of the Sydney Basin lies a vast coal measure that outcrops on
the coast north and south of Sydney. It was coal first noticed here in 1791 only three
years after the first fleet arrived in Sydney that led to the foundation of New Castle.
New Castle stands at the mouth of the Hunter River and its prosperity was first based on
coal from the mines around Sesnock in the Hunter Valley.
Then in 1911 the Broken Hill Company opened its first steelworks at New Castle and today
this is the sixth largest city in Australia with a population of a quarter of a million.
When Captain Cook sighted these rounded humps in May 1770 he first thought they were islands.
When he climbed to the masthead he saw that they were hills guiding the entrance to a
fine harbour. This he named Port Stephens after one of the secretaries to the Admiralty.
Today we know that these bastions are made of porphyry, rock that welled up from within
the earth in a molten state and after cooling became so hard that it resisted the wearing
down of the surrounding landscape. Beside Port Stephens at the mouth of the Myall
River lies a small town with the picturesque name of Tea Gardens. To follow the course
of this river, as many people do in boats, is to enter one of the most unspoiled areas
left on the coast of New South Wales. The Myall River winds through low swampy heathland and
its strangely tinted water, the colour of tea, provides a clue to its origin. For it
drains the Myall Lakes, the largest freshwater lake system on the east coast and the colour
comes from the tannins extracted from the peaty swamp lands around the lakes. All these
waterways are now included in the Myall Lakes National Park. This is one of the camping
areas at Bomber Point. The northern boundary of the Myall Lakes National Park is Sugarloaf
Point, better known as Seal Rocks. The northern boundary of the Myall Lakes National Park
is Sugarloaf Point, better known as Seal Rocks. The northern boundary of the Myall Lakes National
Park is Sugarloaf Point, better known as Seal Rocks. Just north of Seal Rocks, behind a
broad sandbar, lies Smiths Lake. Although not in the National Park, it has a similar tranquillity
and natural beauty. But the repose of the National Park is a little different. The National Park
is a little different. The National Park is a little different. The National Park is a
little different.
Ahead of us now, the New South Wales coast extends in the succession of rocky points
and beaches, unrolling endlessly beneath our fleets.
One outstanding landmark on our route is the massive ruin at Trial Bay on the mouth of
the Maclay River. This was a large prison built in 1876 and closed down again in 1903.
The jail never housed convicts, although Trial Bay itself was named after the Brig trial,
seized by convicts in Sydney in 1816 and wrecked here as they tried to escape the
North. Near Coffs Harbour, steep ridges crowd almost to the coast. They are composed largely
of basalt, the result of ancient lava flows from the great belt of volcanic activity along
the North Coast. Basalt weathers into rich red soil and on these slopes are grown the
bananas that have made Coffs Harbour prosperous.
Back to the coast now to round a significant corner, Cape Byron, the easternmost point
on the continent.
And so we cross the border into Queensland, rising ahead of the stately pleasure domes
of Kubla Khan, the minarets of Mecca calling the faithful to seek entry to paradise, although
in this case of course it's surfer's paradise.
Surfer's paradise grew up on the low sandy banks of the Narang River, but as the place
grew bigger and its residents became more affluent, the supply of waterside land ran
out. So surfer's paradise began to create its own waterfront by building canals and
artificial islands. The extent of this amazing development can only be really appreciated
from the air.
The
extraordinary place is remembered for, it's obvious that quite a few of its citizens
would like it to be known as the Venice of the South. With its devotion to the worship
of sun and sea, surfer's paradise provides us with a foretaste of the next stage on our
journey, but we're about to head north to the tropic seas and coral islands of the Great
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And that was the final episode of Pelican's Progress for the time being.
Monday night Maggie makes a pilgrimage to the East End where she was born seeking reminders
of the good old days.
She finds things have changed.
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Western Australian champion Pro Chevalier tonight won the $70,000 Winfield Cup with
a powerhouse effort at Melbourne's Moonee Valley Track.
WA's second entry, Shin Fane, also performed exceptionally well, having a hard run outside
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Shin Fane in the purple colours was sticking well on the fence, but in the run home, Pro
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The winner set a new class record and came home in a staggering 57.6 seconds for the
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The warning comes after violent raids by local youths on the camp last night, when tents
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Overseas and hijackers holding a Kuwaiti airline in Tehran have named an American official
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Refresh is a natural, refresh is youth.
Refresh is the taste of square fruit.
With vitamin C it grows on the trees and fits into the back so perfectly.
Refresh is fun, it's a natural one.
With square fruit and the taste of the sun.
All new, natural refresh.
With the all-around goodness of square fruit.
Refresh is fun, it's a natural one.
With square fruit and the taste of the sun.
This man is about to make this woman an offer she can't refuse.
It won't be marriage, but what he proposes will change her life forever.
Scarecrow and Mrs. King, they're coming soon to seven.
Oh come, holy faithful, joyful and triumphant.
Oh come ye, oh come ye to Bethlehem.
Come and behold him, the black King of angels.
Oh come, let us adore him.
Oh come, let us adore him.
Oh come, let us adore him.
Hi there, this is Jackie Trent.
And this is Tony Hatch, wishing you and yours a very, very Merry Christmas.
And a bright New Year.
And don't forget, stay on Channel 7.
I found out where the plutonium is.
Oh really, where?
Los Angeles.
Peterson!
Where's Parker?
Spider-Man.
Spider-Man.
Spider-Man.
Ben Lexen, designer, perfectionist, winner and new Toyota Turago.
Breakthrough design.
Magic new Toyota Turago.
Beyond the car, beyond the van, beyond the wagon.
Beyond anything on wheels.
The wonderful feeling of Turago's aerodynamics, new cruise control, coil spring rear suspension, and design that pleases even Ben Lexen.
Somebody did it right, again.
Oh what a feeling.
Turago.
Toyota.
You're bored to sleep at home.
They bore you stiff at school.
You're not allowed to let off steam.
If it's fun, it's against the rules.
Go your own way today.
Jump a generation gap into time zone.
Jump a generation gap into time zone.
Time, time zone.
Just one coin by the wall.
Time, time zone.
What's a welcome cry to the roughnecks on the rig?
Chaining up the pipes in the outback heat.
What's a welcome cry when your throat is bone dry and your arms start aching while it's breaking your, breaking your back?
And the cry goes out right across the stage.
Would you go and export, mate?
Would you go and export, mate?
You know how it is.
Every time she comes face to face with an insect, she screams.
It's a good thing I'm around.
Keep the place safe, you know.
Spray the bagon.
He's worse than I am, poor cat.
He jumps six feet at the side of a cockroach.
So I jump for the bagon.
We sprayed around the patio this morning.
Why should we feed any creatures we didn't invite?
With bagon surface spray, insects are no problem.
It just keeps working.
Gentlemen, I'd say we have a situation here.
The bomb would have exploded in the city.
What could we expect?
If it's still in the city.
Well, let's say it is.
Ten pounds of plutonium could have a yield of as much as 15 kilotons.
Now, if that were to explode in Wall Street in the middle of a weekday...
If the public hears about this, there'll be unbelievable panic.
This must be kept out of the newspapers as long as possible.
You understand that, Parker?
Yeah, I understand.
Well, I guess this lets you off the hook.
But not Spider-Man.
Oh, not quite.
He could still be involved.
Parker, let me ask you something.
Deep down, do you really think this bomb will explode?
Well, let me put it to you this way.
As far as we know, since 1945, everyone who has attempted to explode an atomic bomb...
has succeeded on the first try.
How come you're calling me so late?
I was just going home.
Well, this will just take a minute.
And besides, it's only 3.15 in California.
What has one got to do with the other?
I need a favor, and I wanted to wait until Mr. Jameson had gone home.
Yeah, but what does that have to do with the time in California?
Rita, do you think your friend on the force could check on a California license for me?
Now, are you ready?
Yeah.
Go ahead.
481...
Uh-huh.
O-L-R.
What's this all about?
All I can say is it might be very important to a friend of mine.
Anyone I know?
No.
Well, yes.
Oh, that friend.
There's somebody at my door.
Can you call me back?
That boy's got more things shaking than a belly dancer in an earthquake.
Gail, what a pleasant surprise.
Not for long.
Why, is nothing the matter?
You just knocked me at the hospital.
No, no, no, you dumped me.
Remember, I came out of the men's room, and you were gone.
Wrong O. You went out the window because I went in after you.
You followed...
Okay, right. I had to meet somebody.
Right. You met Spider-Man, didn't you?
Yes, I did.
Then why can't I meet him?
Because you can't.
Now, look, it's hard enough for him as it is.
Why don't you just forget this whole thing?
Is that what you want?
Peter, as long as I am a working professional in this business,
I know how to keep professional secrets.
My paper wants this interview pretty bad.
Peter, I might be able to get you more money.
It's not the money.
Hello.
Hi. This is the night shift.
Oh, yeah, Rita. What'd you find out?
Well, California 481OLR is registered to the White Import-Export Company of Los Angeles.
I knew it.
Thank you, Rita. Thank you very much. You are terrific.
Aw, you're just saying that.
But you're right.
Later.
What's up?
I just figured out where the plutonium is.
They're here.
Excellent. I want the device completed immediately.
You already have a buyer?
Well, several curious nibbles, but nothing you would call a real bite.
Truthfully, it's been rather disappointing.
I think I may have to try a new approach with this piece of merchandise.
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.
I think I may have to try a new approach with this piece of merchandise.
You don't get your hands on an atomic bomb just every day.
You're right. It is a rather unique opportunity.
An opportunity that should be exploited with imagination and a sense of style.
Wouldn't you think?
I'd say we'll get right on it.
You cannot keep following me like this.
Yes, I can, and I will, too. I get that. What you do is Spider-Man.
You are the stubbornest woman.
I like to call it persistence.
Now, you wait here.
That's good, Pete. You got eaten right out of your hands.
I'm glad you were able to see me...
see us again, Mr. Jameson. You won't regret it, I promise you.
I doubt it. What was it you wanted to tell me?
Well, first, I want to thank you for giving me my job back.
But secondly, I do have a special request.
Oh, you're not going to ask me for a raise.
Oh, no. It's nothing like that. It's just that I need some expense money.
You see...