The J.O.B. and what comes with it...

RP: 
I heard there was a need for a site engineer near a rural town named Proserpine so I spoke with Jen and with very little investigation into the area I accepted the assignment. Fortunately, the assignment couldn't have been to a more beautiful place. Proserpine is a farm town centered around cane farming (sugar cane) and happens to also be the gateway to a tourist hotspot - The Whitsunday Islands.

A friendly cockatoo sitting below our balcony

The J.O.B. itself is the remediation/closure of an exploratory pit intended to determine suitability for oil production. There are heaps of issues associated with the pit itself ranging from: number 1. politics, to technical issues associated with the excavated material having oxidized over the 30 years it has been exposed to the atmosphere (instead of exposure to the water table which it would have been under). The good news is that our client only wants to pay for me to be on site 40 hours a week, so with construction being conducted almost every daylight hour I get to have a good amount of time to explore the area.

The irrigation dam near the site I'm working on covered in fog

A magpie begging for food on the side mirror of my work truck

We've been to beautiful beaches - Dingo, Hideaway Bay (Montes Resort), Coral, and Shingley and taken a kayak out to Molle Island. The environment is fascinating - tropical plants, parrots and cockatoos, black swans, kookaburras, kangaroos, huge sea turtles, humpback whales, and even a giant, coastal carpet python. My only complaint has been that I have been entirely unsuccessful fishing! I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I am now at the point where I'd be happy catching a sardine.

At Dingo Beach. The only thing on the line is bait...