Given that I'm flying out at 6am on Sunday morning - and it's now just gone 11pm Friday - I thought I'd better start thinking about what I'm taking up north...For those who haven't heard, I'll be spending the next six months or so working as a Community Employment Broker for remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory (as part of the Australian Government's Emergency Intervention Taskforce).
It's an opportunity I've been considering since the Taskforce was created last year, and now, thanks to my ever-accommodating partner Julia, a generous boss and a six-month deployment timeframe, I get to experience it first hand (although I won't know where exactly I'm being deployed until early March).
In the meantime, I've got less than 24 hours to work out what I'll take with me. See above for what I've got so far.
It may look like a lot, but it ain't much when you consider that I'll need gear for everyday wear, important-day wear and labouring wear... all during the wet season, too, when the humidity pushes 100% on the cool days.
Of course, beyond that, I'm also planning to sneak up my bike, although I'm not quite sure how I'll manage to hide that from the Head Honchos.
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