fish in a barrel

I've just come back from two days at HMAS Creswell, the navy training base in Jervis Bay. Mon Dieu! That was hard work! We did nineteen setups, which involves carting my gear our on location, setting it all up, scrolling the script for a bit, and taking it to the next location. I'm going to develop enormous muscles if I do a lot of that - it's heavy stuff!

Those poor trainees, they got soaked and gassed and all sorts of carryon, whereas the film crew stayed largely dry and safe.

It was good fun though, we saw the navy trainees in mock ships being flooded, putting out fires and being tear gassed. It was well impressive. They also had kangaroos all over the base. There were heaps of them, all over the parade ground and kicking back on the golf course they have. They were Eastern Greys, so not the massive ones, but very cute nonetheless.

The weather was blowing a southerly gale, and cold (for Australia). I actually quite enjoyed it.. it's nice being able to rug up. I like how you can always get warm if you're cold. There's nothing much you can do if it's hot.

Mardi Gras is on this weekend, a block from where my place is. I might go down and watch the parade for a bit, and I'm also having a friend over for dinner and a bottle of wine. We'll have to make do without furniture still, but I'm sure he won't mind.

Now, I'm rewarding myself for two days of hard labour carrying my heavy gear around with a pizza, which has just arrived. Yummo!