Storms at Turner

Some afternoon storms coming in over Turner camp

Camp life at Turner

Here are some photos of how I live at camp....  By the time I got around to posting these, I've moved down the road to another camp, but I will probably be back here in a month or so....

Storm coming in from the west

Fire truck - let's hope we don't need to use it!

Inside my room

This guy scared the frog out of me the first time I found him in my shower!

Kitchen on the left, tavern on the right!

The road out heading south, and our tower that has phone, internet and TV for our connection with the outside world

Our office is the little one in the middle, but we will be moving soon

Chains to tie down the buildings in case of cyclones

Some of the things I can choose for my lunch

Train line at the end of the rooms

The row of rooms

My room!

The ice room where we get cold drinking water, ice and do our breath testing each morning

Inside the kitchen

Where we sit to eat

The tavern!

Our tower again

Cyclone mesh on the office windows

The ambulance

My lunch!

My dessert at lunch!

Trip from Pt Hedland to Camp

After doing a course on Saturday morning, I was picked up by one of my colleagues for the trip to camp.  Here are quite a lot of photos of the journey.  The trip took about 3 hours, mainly because we had to go the long way due to road flooding after Cyclone Heidi.

Rio Tinto's Salt

Empty Iron Ore train on it's way to Newman

We go straight ahead here

The lead locos on a 232 car & 4 loco train

Follow the horizon.... It's all the same train!

The horizon is still train.....

The middle locos

Finally, the end of the train and we can cross the tracks!

A different type of train!

I really am up in the Pilbara!

Turner River

Out the window of a very muddy car!

Long straight stretch of road

Our turn-off!

This grass is everywhere, and it appears to be the only grass

Me in the middle of nowhere!  I kind of blend in with the background.....

Flooded roadway that we had to pass

We turn left here

Magnificent sky!  Rail line in the foreground

More long straight roads, but this time they are dirt!

This is the line we will be working on.  When it's done, it will look like the one on the left

One of the locals

Only 9km until I'm "home"!