Sunday 22 July 2007

13th July – Raven Camp

Learnt more about how to log core today from Steve and Dave. The team is quite young and it is good fun.

Another plan. Leo said “Come check the rig!” We did then we went to the airstrip. Consistent moderate to strong wind is unusual here. We got to the airstrip and Leo pulled out the kite. It is a trainer kite for kite boarding and kite surfing. I was the wingman which was best as the wind was really strong to the point that it was dragging him down the strip. Lots of fun. Brendo flew past in the chopper and his comments to the chopper pilot about us doing our environmental base line study to determine wind velocities didn’t work.

That evening we went fishing at Kewen Lake again. I had a terrible time and caught one fish and lost six of the nine lures I bought. We ended up talking shit and drinking white rum in the moss by the side of the lake. We fished until about 11:30pm and it was still twilight. The twilight here is amazing, it gets dark (blue) at around midnight and dawn starts at about 3am. Brendo caught another belter and the bugs were everywhere. Thanks to our uber-bug spray we were fine.

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