Planes, Trains and Automobiles

I'm finally back and posting :) And for now it is quite possible I will be updating more regularly for a while. I seem to be having trouble with the english language though so bear with me.... I'm slightly hungover. As you can see from the pic below, updating my blog was high on my list of priorities for the day, beating such things as showering and putting on pants :)



So yeah, anyways, I've been out in the field busily mapping away. Saw a few things one wouldn't expect to see in the Pilbara.... Saw a fighter jet, on his own, flying just a few hundred meters of the ground.... very bizarre. Also saw camels, which are uncommon in rocky areas... they ran when they saw us coming so I didn't get any good photos.


trains are so photogenic.... just after I took this photo the fucker honked at me... scared the hell out me (it's a very loud horn).



Our poor mapping vehicle took quite a beating from all the driving through the bush, and I mean THROUGH the bush :) Sometimes the bush fought back.




This gully crossing proved too much for the old girl... ended up having to back out and go around :( It doesn't look that bad, but we were actually stuck when I took these photos. We had to jam some tree branches under the wheels to get traction.




A view out of the windscreen just before a big dropoff...scary :) This was far as we went.


Tell you what though, the toyota landcruiser is a bloody good vehicle, it stood up to the punishment we gave it really well. We celebrated by taking stupid pictures :)


There are some rather large lizards around the Pilbara. This bad boy is called a Bungarra I believe. I think he was somewhere in the range of 1.5 to 2 meters long, wouldn't want him running up me that's for sure. those are some nast looking claws. Luckily he hadn't warmed up when we came across him so he wasn't moving around too quickly.




At the end of the day there's nothing better than having a beer and watching the sunset :)



Random plant pic.


Random pic of me.


So what else has been going on.... well I have no idea. I'll think what I've done a post again later :) I drank 10 pints of various german beers last night at oktoberfest (the curtin universty version), so I'm a little hazy right now. I assume I must be sober by now, but I'm not sure that I was when I woke up this morning :)

I took yesterday off, and went for a surf in the morning. I'm not sure when I last went for a surf but it was quite a while ago. It was really good, I have to start going regularly again I think. The waves weren't great but they weren't bad either, and it was a really nice day so it was all good. Unfortunately I forgot my camera so no pictures.....next time :) There were a couple of helicopters about, and they kept hovering low over the ocean in the area I was surfing, it was a little disconcerting, cause you have to wonder why they're hovering. This is why. I was at a beach a bit further up the coast, both helicopters I saw were television station choppers, must've been getting footage for the story or something. I only found out last night that it was a shark sighting. My dad rang me while I was out last night, I couldn't hear him at all cause it was too loud so i just said I was fine and hung up... he was ringing to make sure I was fine having heard about the shark... I was.

I think last post I mentioned an incident that required me to change my clothes :) Well, the story is, I was sitting on a picnic bench type thing at the wet mess with my boss. I was leaning back to take a photo of some sort, keeping myself up by having my legs hooked under the table....my boss in all his wisdom decided he'd lean back too. WE WERE ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE TABLE. Needless to say we ended up wearing our respective glasses of wine....I was not impressed. It was pretty funny though :) I leave you with a pic of the damage :D


I think it's time to shower and put on some pants :)