Today was a fill in the blanks day, our drillers got to have the day off, they spent the day sleeping in, playing card games and going fishing. I’m in the wrong business.
As for us we got off to a late due to being fogged in, however we were in the air by 0710h (instead of 0700h) flying under the fog at 500ft. it was a 4.5 minute flight back to the first site we were at (Mile 170) to pick up items that we had missed or put off on the first visit. James and I worked on the leveling survey while Claire and Julie completed the DGSP (digital GPS survey of the boreholes and monitoring wells), water levels and water sampling. By 1030h we lifted off for Mile 131.4, after 15 minutes of flying down the valley (the fog was still below the mountain tops) we hit the fog full on and had to turn around and head back to Ram’s Head camp. It was almost 1500h before we left camp for Mile 131.4 with the same crew as before, doing the same work.
The first attempt to reach the site at Mile 131.4.
While we were fogged in, I managed to sneak a peek into the camp kitchen and grab a photo of the stove that I would like to put in the kitchen at home…..well what do you think Shelly?
The dog on the floor is NOT dinner, she is just playing dead.
The washing machine we get to use for cleaning our field clothing, wash, wring out, hang on the line..repeat.
Well my luck with computers is running out, this is the longest I’ve ever gone without running into some type of computer error, today the computer, henceforth to be known as “Brick” has started acting up and keeps asking me to “insert system disk” and will not recognise the C or D drives. I will continue to write down what transpires here in my field book and transcribe the notes when the “Brick” is working again, likely not until I return home sometime in September….
I’ll leave this now in peace and put pencil to paper.
Cheers….
Love this breed of dog. :)
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