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What a bizarre hobby we share that would involve us spending so much time planning and packing our gear, travelling 4 hours each way, only to sit shivering in bleakness for three days and two nights.
In short, the warmth of human company, a fire, and Muscat and even the dim possibility of getting to see our beautiful Milky Way is enough to bring me. Wouldn't miss it, even in a blizzard.
Did well on the eyepeice front this year (well if you can't actually observe, you might as well gear up for future sessions).
Nice to spend quality time with John and Anna and Mike, to catch up in daylight with some of the IIS gang from the central coast, share brekky with Roger Davis and the others, and I particularly enjoyed the fireside chat last night with Mike Smith.
Thanks to the organisers of this event for making a potentially dreary hell into a cheerful and pleasant event.
Hopefully next year we can get more co-operation from the weather.
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