Another busy week - there doesn't seem to be any other sort here! This week's big achievement was learning to drive the truck (basically a lorry but with a fixed cab), which carries horses, people, and anything else you fancy really from saddles to bulldozers! After a crash course in truck driving from Josh (3mins, turning the truck around from the loading ramp) we drove out to one of the paddocks for the others to muster some horses while I took the tru...

It's been a busy week - after Anne picked us up on Monday we had a 4hr car journey from Mt Isa to Nardoo, with a stop at Cloncurry to pick up supplies on the way. To start with the roads were pretty good, all tarmacked (?) with 2 or 3 lanes, but quickly went down to single track, which would be a problem if you met something coming the other way (especially if it was a road train) but I think over the whole 4 hours we passed 5 cars!!! Some parts of the road w...

After leaving Brisbane on Friday by train, and saying goodbye to the 4 people going to work on the Gold Coast, Tom, Ting, Katie and I made it onto the plane to Mount Isa with a little time to spare. The airports here are so much more efficient than at home - yes there are queues to go through security etc but it just all seems to be better organised. The flight up here was good, though we were unable to land first time round due to there being a bush turkey on th...

First things first - the flight! How long?! 8 of us flew out from Heathrow in my Changing Worlds group, and 7 of us managed to get seats near each other - the back 2 rows of the plane, which actually worked out quite well as we were near the emergency exits, so we had space to stand up and have a leg stretch and a bit of a chat. Unfortunately though they couldn't fit Freya in next to us, so she had to sit halfway up the plane on her own. I was going to ask th...