Not too long ago I met this woman @trishcurryx who was going to be the pilot to escort me across 10,000 Km of country as part of my recent assignment into the heart of this Country we now call Australia.
Before the trip I was more excited than anything with no care about too many of the logistical details but as the day to fly out approached it dawned upon me that I would be traveling from community to community alone with someone I don't know or haven't even met yet! What if we did get along, what if we had a disagreement, what if I did not want to be around them? It was these questions, that as I woke up from sleeping on the back of my Car tray 100km out of Perth at 0430 in the morning waking to travel into the city for my flight, I asked myself causing a level of anxiety that I was able to get past.
Without wiring too much of my personal concerns I can say we got along well enough that when asked she gave me permission to post some photos of her at work and a little bit about herself!
Trish has one of the more interesting lives from perspective than many others. She is a registered Nurse as well as a qualified pilot with greater aspirations. Although see described the humdrum to being a regional and remote pilot with simple tasks like delivering mail to remote stations this caused my wild imagination to conjure scenes of a pilot flying low over a remote station waving at the small people below before delivering the weeks mail, it was less exciting than my imagination though.
She is now involved in some a little more interesting like helping the regional Aboriginal people of the NT and Far North WA practice cultural burning of their country from aircraft, it best described by a quote from a ranger coordinator out there "we just burnt a region of area the size of Belgium today!" It was one of the grandest things my eyes have seen from above to this date. I'm no stranger to seeing fires with the famers burning huge swathes of land around the Mid West but this was truly breath taking sight and hard to capture with a camera behind the windows of a plane.
I could definitely keep writing but I'm just about to reach the word limit, thanks for the trip tri
