Delivery of the etching plates and assorted etching “nasties” for the Darwin Project in east Arnhem Land was a complicated business. Here some of the party are collecting the plates at a remote location on the Baniyala road on our way in to the outstation. A truck had driven past from Katherine and had dropped them off a day or two earlier at the “third culvert from the turnoff”, we had been told, so we were relieved to find them. The Wet still hasn’t started, but it won’t be long!
$2500 worth of etching plate waiting for collection
October 18, 2009 Basil Hall