Back to work .

Now that was a commute and a half.

Friday:
Left home at 4:30am for Sydney airport. Flew from Sydney to Brisbane then Brisbane to Mt Isa, the pilot attempted to land but a tail wind (200km/hr) prevented landing, he then tried from the other direction but was unable to get below the cloud to land. We then flew to Alice Springs and landed there. Refuelled, waited for the weather to clear at Mt Isa and then took off again. The pilot informed us that he would have one attempt at landing and if that was a "no-go" we would be going back to Brisbane which was met with dismay by all aboard. Luckily we were able to land at Isa.

Saturday:
Drove from Mt Isa to Barkly Homestead for lunch (Barkly Highway) then through Tennant Creek and down to Wauchope for the night. Wauchope NT pronounced war-cup-ee as opposed to Wauchope NSW pronounced war-hope. Wauchope is the nearest town to the Devil's Marbles, which we had a quick squiz at (I camped there on my honeymoon).

Sunday:
Drove from Wauchope to Alice Springs for lunch and a bit of shopping, then drove on to Kulgera NT for the night. Kulgera is the nearest town to the SA border.

Monday:
Drove from Kulgera to Coober Pedy SA for lunch, the on to Woomera for the night.

Tuesday:
We found a site for the remote and set it up ready to go, then we drove to Pimba (just near Woomera) for lunch. We then headed 88km south to a turn off towards Lake Torrens. Just over 100km of dirt and sand driving later (through desert) we came to Carrapateena which is where we will be doing this survey. We all spent the night here.

Wednesday:
We started to get the line set up and after lunch I set off back to Woomera while the others continued to set up. Spent the night at Woomera.

Thursday:
Finally ready to start work.



So there you have my commute to work.

For those of you who could be bothered, you can have a look at where we went using this map service.