NAVIGATION INSTRUCTORS WORKSHOP – DAY 02

The day promised to be cold and it did deliver. We continued on with the classroom material and plotted our points for the navigation exercise.

We left for Sunny Corner State Forest and soon enough we were at the “obstacle” which proved too much for some of the PCs. Only two RFS vehicles and a 4WD made it to the top: with no diff lock and city tyres, it was not going to happen! The road was torn down.

After consolidating the crews, we arrived at our destination. During the briefing, we were joined by a red-headed mouse spider. We were then off to navigate a 850 m leg using pacing and compass and map alone: I arrived 5 metres from the target: I was chuffed!

Time was running out. We debriefed and then made our way back to where we had abandoned the vehicles and eventually home!

A great weekend that has given me a lot of food for thought!