Using personal diaries to collect data

Abstract

We set out under liravy skies, but Robb [the (our leader] had been assured by phone by the driver ol the Birdsville supply truck that all was well at least to there. We slopped at a very green spot lor a cuppa and were quite ama/ed at the rieh color of tile grass. There was llie rich fresh smell of freshly rained on soil. We passed through more of the edge of the Sturt Stony Uesert and were amused to be traveling through a desert in the light rain which was then falling. As we continued there was more and more green growth and more permanent vegetation than I liad expected. Tlie road became more and more slippery and there in front of us, bogged in a diagonal position across the road, was the supply truck, whose driver liad spoken to Robb by phone. Rob!) did Ins best to stav in a position to pass, but alas, we were bogged.