Outback Australia

I have been doing a bit of travel for work lately.  I consider myself fortunate that I get to see and experience the things that go with visiting mine sites in remote parts of Australia.

The picture below was taken while Doug (my travelling companion) and I were driving to a site in Western Australia.  The picture does not do justice to the colours.  The red of the earth and the blue of the sky were truely stunning.  And the colours constantly changed.  The sunsets were beautiful.

While in Western Australia Doug decided it would be a good idea to take a couple of photos of me to show the kids.  You can just make me out in my site uniform standing next to the historical display of mining equipment (no thanks to Doug's thumb obscuring the photo).

Another trip saw Doug and I travelling to the Northern Territory.  For those of you that have never stayed at a mine's camp (accomodation) the rooms are normally large enough to house a single bed, wardrobe and a desk.  So imagine our surprise when we were given the visitor's lodge.  It was a 3 bedroom house with its own kitchen (not that we used it as a bonus of staying in camp is the canteen with all you can eat food), lounge room, dining area and bathroom.  In the evening we would gaze out the window and admire the wallabies feasting on the mangoes that had fallen to the ground.

The only draw back of the house was that it didn't keep the frogs out.