Yesterday was a shocker.

The second day at this site the CRU (essential piece of recording hardware) at the line dogbox was playing up. It was extremely slow to read data from it's SCSI drive and since the line records about 60 stations and my remote only records 3 stations they did a swap.

Well yesterday it carked it fully!

I spent 5 hours trying to get the problem sorted and traced the problem to the CRU and most likely it's power circuitry. I packed up for the day and took the CRU and cabling to the line dogbox to test it there as they had spare bits over there I could use. Anyway it turned out to be the internal power supply that was stuffed and luckily we had a spare one. All fixed and back up and running again today.

We decided to start early today to make up a bit of lost time which meant that it was still dark when I set off for the remote (about 80km away).

I don't mind driving at night, I actually enjoy it, but driving at dawn in the Aussie outback comes with the high risk of colliding with a roo or two. While I was ruising along at 110km/hr a very large roo was busily drinking from a puddle of water from last night's rain. The puddle was on the road... The VERY large roo was on the road... I saw the roo about 100m in advance and started to slow down, the silly bugger did a 180' turn and jumped right in front of me as I went past. Made a hell of a bang, bent the bullbar, smashed the indicator light, just missed doing major damage to the steering. But the roo came off worse. Dead. Dragged him off the road so the wedge tailed eagles could have a feast without adding to the road toll and went on my way.