Hello from the Yilgarn!

It's my third day on site and it's also the third day in a row that it has been raining. Everything is wet outside, the pit is muddy, and there is no production happening (the picture above was taken during a pause , but it quickly started pouring down again). It's supposed to be a quiet day in the working life of kae, but rainy days often means panic day.

I'm currently out here on a relief assignment as the normal advisor is currently on annual leave. So besides being thrown in the deep end after 1.5 days of handover, I have also been thrown in the 'kae we need you to run a presentation since its raining' type day. It's been a bit of a hectic day , but at least it's making the days go by.

Before I got here, I had heard love stories about the place and about the people. Three days in, i'm still undecided. Why?

• My last site was situated in a town, so I had many amenities and facilities accesible to me. A town there is not here. Instead, it is a workers' camp with a dry mess and a wet mess (a place that sells alcohol for those that don't work in the industry).
• There is a small dry mess here, which would be about the size of the dessert section at my last site. hehe. You know i love food ;)
• And thirdly, the people. Sure, there are some lovely people and some friendly familiar faces but there are some which i'm still yet to form an opinion of. Hopefully that opinion will be positive.

Sounds like a bit of whinging doesn't it? unfortunately for us FIFO /DIDO workers, work = home for more time than I am actually at home. And as always, it takes a little bit to make a place feel like home.. so let's give it some time hey ?