Category:Travel

Flushing was how we set both the explosives and hydrophones in Brunei. Fairly simpe - just pump a lot of water down the inside of the tube and it washes out the sand up the sides. Turn the tube with some pipe wrenches to prevent the tube from sticking in the hole.
January 10, 2013

Daily Photo – Flushing

It didn't take a lot of horsepower to make the holes in which we set the explosives and hydrophones - just a water pump...

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Seismic survey line cut through the jungle inland of Seria, Brunei, 1989.
January 9, 2013

Daily Photo – Jungle Line

After the surveyor cut his line, a 'bridging crew' would follow along behind and cut smaller trees to form a walkway, or bridge. Typically...

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A few miles inland from Kuala Belait, Brunei, was a sand quarry in the jungle. This photo quite clearly shows the 3 ~ 4 meter layer of organic material from the jungle overlying a seam of sand that is being quarried for construction needs.
January 8, 2013

Daily Photo – Jungle Quarry

Most of my LVL work was to determine and map the boundary of the organic material to the first two distinct layers of sand....

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LVL shooting in Brunei.
January 7, 2013

Daily Photo – Bang!

Actually, the shot below is of a pretty shoddy job. If we'd done it properly, as we did most of the time, there wouldn't...

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If you look closely you can see a bird sitting on a wire that passes along the front of these buildings. Chinatown, Singapore, 1989, before it was 'restored'.
January 6, 2013

Daily Photo – Bird on a Wire

It's trickier to find the bird sitting on the wire in this image than the two caged birds in the image I posted yesterday,...

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If you look closely you can see two birds sitting in a cage hung outside a window in this picture of a street in Chinatown, Singapore, taken in 1989. There's also an electric fan sung outside a window to provide a drying breeze in case nature fails to.
January 5, 2013

Daily Photo – Two Caged Birds

There are two birds sitting in a cage outside one of the windows here - actually there's a second cage but I can't see...

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