So there's only two weeks until we ship out on the Aurora Australis; the Orange Roughy; that big orange boat that hangs out at the docks in Hobart.
Adam and I agree that the time has passed extremely quickly. I feel as if the departure date has snuck up on us, its imminence was brought home today, being the cut-off date for our larger allotted cargo consignment. All of us expeditioners on V1 are now left with a meagre 30kg of baggage to live from for the next two weeks plus the 12 days of the voyage down.
Things here are good. I have been doing a lot of interesting training. Highlights have been forklift operation, chainsaw operation and maintenance, and 6 days of firefighting training. Firefighting was excellent!
I'll write more later. I have to go to a manual handling course in 5 mins that was provocatively labelled 'man handling' on the training schedule. Bit suss.
Cheers.
