Wallaby Part 2

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After a 3 hour bus ride, which we all slept through, we reached Tiger Hill Camp in the middle of the night. Roughly awoken, we dragged ourselves out into the cold wind of the desert night. First time we experienced the cold of Australia. We dragged our heavy bags up the hill, about 400 meters in pitch darkness, swearing at the treacherous vegetation grasping at our ankles. Finally making it up to the cookhouse, it was a bleak sight. Row after row of tents, lit by naked yellow bulbs. We were briefed on the days to come, and sent to the cookhouse to eat our night snack.

Cookhouse

Almost but not quite, entirely unlike porridge

25th September 0900

Prepared for outfield, packed the 5 tonner trucks with stores and moved out. Our first stop, Single Tank Battle Course, at Mulpha. The Australian landscape is really beautiful. Just miles and miles of browned, knee high grass, scatterings of trees, and framed by majestic mountain ranges.

Packing the Target tonner

Welcome to the desert

TCC rolling in!

Setting up tentage at Mulpha

After everything had been set up, we walked the ground and started preparing for the shoot. We worked slowly, as this was unfamiliar territory, but managed to set up everything by night fall. That night we slept outside the tentage, confident it wouldn't rain in the desert. 

It rained that night. We pulled our sleeping bags around us and ignored it. When it became too heavy to ignore, we went to stand inside the tentage. No one got much sleep that night either.