The geophysicist visits.
Try saying that five times while sucking on a lemon!
One of the reasons we stopped in Mount Isa was to catch up with John, the brother of one of my oldest and dearest friends Mel. He works for Xtrata analyzing data in order to figure out where to dig for minerals. His girlfriend is a geologist. He came over to our camp for dinner and brought the boys soft drinks,chips AND a core sample of copper from 2 kilometres under the ground.
The boys showed him their road trip rock collection and we chatted about old friends. Good to see you John.
Mount Isa is an interesting place. When we arrived we headed directly to the free water playground for lunch and a bit of cool in the hot hot heat. Great playground, all free and provided by Xtrata (the mining company that basically owns the town). You can't ever forget that you are in a mining town as the ever present smokestack is constantly belching out sulphur dioxide fumes in the middle of town. A little unnerving to be honest...
Try saying that five times while sucking on a lemon!
One of the reasons we stopped in Mount Isa was to catch up with John, the brother of one of my oldest and dearest friends Mel. He works for Xtrata analyzing data in order to figure out where to dig for minerals. His girlfriend is a geologist. He came over to our camp for dinner and brought the boys soft drinks,chips AND a core sample of copper from 2 kilometres under the ground.
The boys showed him their road trip rock collection and we chatted about old friends. Good to see you John.
Mount Isa is an interesting place. When we arrived we headed directly to the free water playground for lunch and a bit of cool in the hot hot heat. Great playground, all free and provided by Xtrata (the mining company that basically owns the town). You can't ever forget that you are in a mining town as the ever present smokestack is constantly belching out sulphur dioxide fumes in the middle of town. A little unnerving to be honest...
We also drove out the the countries largest privately constructed lake which offers a recreational precinct for the good people of the Isa. Built by, you guessed it, Xtrata!
We camped kinda near this lake in a caravan park where 90% of the people were permanent. Miners who work deep underground 4 days on, 4 days off. One truck driver we met at the pool earns 110,000 a year driving an air conditioned truck for as he puts it ( half the year). He seemed pretty happy with the arrangement!
The best part was seeing John and watching the VERY local mallee ring neck parrots grazing. See! Bird nerd!!
The best part was seeing John and watching the VERY local mallee ring neck parrots grazing. See! Bird nerd!!
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