More News from David in the Variety Club Event

So - finally the SatTracking of the Variety Club event is working properly now (apparently the SatTrak24 people's server was moved on the weekend and they didn't realise there was a glitch). As you can now see, David is now all the way up in Port Hedland.

David is doing the "networking" thing with the PostCards film crew (of course!) who are filming the whole event and I hear his fine tally is up to about $45 so far - apparently he and my Dad are not handing in their completed questionaire sheet each day (both of them are probably too busy looking at their computer screens to do questionaires)...and I hear there is lots of Penfolds 405 being drunk (sounds a bit rich for a bush trip doesn't it, but that's Variety for you). They have a band that plays each night, lots of theme nights and have gone on tracks I can't even find on our maps... unfortunately however, to find a place to camp all 40 cars means that in Rudall River NP, the most remote national park in the country, they had to roll out their swags on the airstrip!?#%&*

Anyway, the orange dots are the positions recorded by the Satellite transceiver - click on the map to launch the dynamic mode (ie you can then draw boxes to zoom in/out etc to see more detail). Updates occur at 10am, 12noon, 2pm and 4pm (or thereabouts). Would be better if the oranges dots were joined together to form a snail trail I guess. Works for me, I can still see that he's where he's meant to be and not on holiday in Bali!

Oh, by the way, he uploaded a new version of a page to the site from his mobile phone in Port Hedland today - incredible what can be done.