30 June 2008

Broken Hill

Wireless broadband internet has hit the Outback. I'm sitting under what are quite possibly the most spectacular stars on the planet while I write this. It is so dark at Eldee Station that last night I saw the Zodiacal Light for the first time in my life.

The soil is brown and and eucalypts are green following what may be a 100-year flood! I just realised that the sand storm that blew through tonight is stored on my camera and not on my memory card, so you'll have to wait for those pictures, but I still love you all and I'm on expensive internet time at the moment so I have to prepare off line for my next post.

Ciao for now...

posted by Kyle @ 04:14 1 comments

26 June 2008

A trip away...

While you may have thought that I've already been on a trip to another planet... I haven't yet achieved that feat. However, I will be on the closest thing to one until 11 July.

I'm off to Broken Hill for the third year field course. There's only patchy internet out there, so if you don't get responses or think that I may in fact be dead, I'm not.

If you GoogleEarth, see if you can find "Mundi Mundi Man" on the Eldee plain northwest of Broken Hill, NSW. Anyone heard of BHP Billiton? They're are one of the world's largest resources companies - BHP standing for Broken Hill Proprietary... Signing off.

posted by Kyle @ 14:39 0 comments