After two and a half days drive from Perth we finally reached one of the flattest, most beautiful but harsh landscapes of Western Australia, the Nullarbor Plain. I am here with the WA Museum and Flinders University to explore some underground caves looking for mega fauna fossils.
I'll be blogging daily to give the latest updates on our discoveries and adventures. So if you don't get anything from me over the next few days, send help! (Although it may just mean our internet is down.)
Since we are in such a remote location, we've brought everything that we need to the camp site. This includes firewood, which we chopped today. I had my first ventures of taming the mechanical beast that is the chain saw. Nick Mayman, the beast's owner, gave me earnest instructions on how to avoid cutting off limbs and to stand aside in case the blades catches and jumps back into my head. Such fun.
I was probably one of the last people to set up my tent, but the most important thing is that it's still standing, for now... Setting up the satellite to connect to the interwebnet was a mission. It took us about an hour to put it together and to get a signal, but it took us a further 3 hours of fiddling with the bearing and elevation of the dish and a few calls to the satellite provider for us to realise that we were connecting to the wrong satellite!
Current state: hungry and excited.
Highlight of the day: the beautiful sunset and chainsawing stuff.
Wild animals spotted today: a dingo, kangaroos and cow, yup, wild cow.
Looking forward to: my first campfire dinner and going underground tomorrow.
Greetings from the Nullarbor Plain
Minh Tran
After two and a half days drive from Perth we finally reached one of the flattest, most beautiful but harsh landscapes of Western Australia, the Nullarbor Plain. I am here with the WA Museum and Flinders University to explore some underground caves looking for mega fauna fossils.
I'll be blogging daily to give the latest updates on our discoveries and adventures. So if you don't get anything from me over the next few days, send help! (Although it may just mean our internet is down.)
Since we are in such a remote location, we've brought everything that we need to the camp site. This includes firewood, which we chopped today. I had my first ventures of taming the mechanical beast that is the chain saw. Nick Mayman, the beast's owner, gave me earnest instructions on how to avoid cutting off limbs and to stand aside in case the blades catches and jumps back into my head. Such fun.
I was probably one of the last people to set up my tent, but the most important thing is that it's still standing, for now... Setting up the satellite to connect to the interwebnet was a mission. It took us about an hour to put it together and to get a signal, but it took us a further 3 hours of fiddling with the bearing and elevation of the dish and a few calls to the satellite provider for us to realise that we were connecting to the wrong satellite!
Current state: hungry and excited.
Highlight of the day: the beautiful sunset and chainsawing stuff.
Wild animals spotted today: a dingo, kangaroos and cow, yup, wild cow.
Looking forward to: my first campfire dinner and going underground tomorrow.