Mud and Dust

Muddy shoes one day and red dust the next.

I spent the weekend in Melbourne after jumping on a 'commercial' flight. It was nice to see the house starting to look like the real thing and not just a empty shell. It did feel a bit strange scraping the mud of my shoes instead of the dust and stones inside of my boots.

I returned to Mount 'Rip off' Isa yesterday and flew out to Hillside this morning. You don't realise how busy the air traffic is in northern Australia until till you try and take off at 08:00. There were at least 15 other aircraft waiting for their opportunity to back track down the runway.

Spent a few hours talking to the owner about his 'proposed' system and then flew into Cloncurry for fuel. I timed things really well again and got mixed up the 'knock off' mine flights as I was coming into land. I Ended up waiting for 45 mins for fuel as the refueller was busy serving the bigger boys (read $$$). I managed to time the flight from Cloncurry to Boulia perfectly and touched down exactly 15 mins before the official sunset.

I am head out to Monkira in the morning to spend a day checking over the system and will then Head to IOR on Friday. I am aiming to be back in Melbourne in about 10 days time.