A picture in our camp at work. It takes plenty of water to keep the place green. There is good water available at 90m deep.
The desert isn't always hot - we get frost in the winter months. This is the back of a dune in the late morning after an overnight frost.
A great picture of the plant with ice fog in the morning.
This is a picture from one of our wellsites looking out into the Sahara. It's 300 km to the nearest town. Don't forget your hat and water!
The flight from Malaga to London was uneventful. I arrived in London around 2PM and decided to grab the Gatwick Express train downtown. 35 minutes and £16 later, I was at Victoria Station near Buckingham Palace. I decided to go check out the Museum of Natural History and the Science Museum, which are together in South Kensington.
The Naturnal History Museum is a collection of all types of creatures from all over the world, stuffed and on display. A few that really stood out were the display of 100 types of hummingbirds, the blue whale (absolutely huge!), and the Albertosaurus dinosaur skeleton., that was excavated near Steveville in southern Alberta. The dinosaur exibit was excellent with several complete skeletons including a triceratops, the albertosaurus, and a stegosaurus.
The Science Museum was a whirlwind tour, I had only 30 minutes before they closed. I looked at the energy exhibit which had steam power, mechanical oil pumpjacks, and old internal combustion engines. The history of flight was very cool with several complete airplanes in the exhibit, including a WWII Spitfire. I practically ran through the models of the 1600 to 1900 wood ship displays. Finally I went through the history of spaceflight exhibit which had a full sized mock-up of the lunar landing module from the Apollo missions. They had a couple of rocks from the moon on display also.
I have arrived at work to cooler temperatures. The normal daytime high for this time of year is in the low 20s, with the mornings in the mid single digits. Today the high was only 15 which wasn't so bad for a Canadian kid, but the Algerians are wearing winter jackets while I am in short sleeves. They tell me that this is the normal temps until next summer, when the temps start to shoot up in May to the 30s again, then in the 50s for July and August. I'm not looking forward to seeing 53 again like we had at the end of June this summer.
Every Friday is CousCous day, every Saturday is BBQ night. It is a peculiar custom for rotating workers to count the weeks is to mark the number of BBQs left to go - I now have one BBQ down, 3 to go...
