Thursday Morning

Well, it's Thursday morning in Oz, with many of us getting the first proper sleep since departing Canada on Monday. Most of the team are here, with the noticeable exceptions being Justin and Neilson who had their flights cancelled from St. John due to the storm and have been trying to make their way here ever since.

The rest of the East coast crowd made it here yesterday evening, but had missed connections on the way, due to some small delays in Canada, which then resulted in some change of flights get to Brisbane. Geoff, who departed St. Johns early on Monday, was I believe the only East coast member that made all his flights and connections.

One rifle did not make the Air New Zealand flight from Vancouver to Auckland, so Air Canada sent it on to Sydney, so there was some fun and games to be had getting it through customs and up to Brisbane, the rifle should arrive today. Gary at Brisbane customs has been a great help, with most of us having a trouble free entry with our kit.

Alas some of the team did not recognize their own bags at Brisbane airport, and went off to baggage customer service to find out why their bags did not arrive. They were just a tad embarrassed when the airport staff read out the names on the luggage tags of the bags left going round and round on the conveyor belts.

Jenny and Mirko were here to greet us, and have done a great job getting things prepared for the team and our other halves.

Yesterday afternoon, a few of the team went shopping for groceries, taking busses to and from the shopping mall. We collect the team mini busses today, and spend the morning assembling and checking kit at the range, with the afternoon spent sighting in at 900/1000 yards.

It appeared to have rained for some of last night, but today's forecast looks like there is a small chance on rain with a high on 21 and humidity of 77%, light winds predicted this morning and increasing as the day goes on. It’s a gentle start to the preparation period, but getting warmer as we approach the weekend.