Tues-Wed, 19-20 June

After coming back from the safari weekend on Sunday arvo, I found myself once again packing my bags and shipping back up to L’Abri

These days were allocated for the L’Abri staff (who I went up with) to go over top ropes training, and I was up there with one of the trainees, tasked at commencing work on a proposed sleeping platform

So as the staff started their ropes training, we started by checking out the potential sites; because the platform had the goal of immersing campers more deeply into an outdoors experience, this platform was to be right in the middle of a forest, not reachable or visible from any of the roughly beaten tracks or trails, which meant traipsing through shrubbery, fernery, crawling under and around low hung branches for the entire morning, through a forest floor that’s naturally green and damp and covered with leafy plant things

After deciding on a spot, we measured the area, felt around the green coverage on the floor for the rocks and then started to grab our materials from the main site
We then spent the rest of the afternoon transporting planks from the main site to the site; I commandeered the L’Abri ute, and spent the arvo bush tracking and hauling in the diesel Isuzu, feeling pretty blokey :P The whole process was so exhausting, I was actually in bed by 8:30pm!!

The next morning we continued hauling things, this time it was sourcing and measuring the huge logs that would be the corner posts of the platform; it was a good thing that we were leaving that arvo, because by that time we were again exhausted :P

All in all, a tough but productive couple of days :)