Wabasca

First day on the job with a small company to put anti-leakage around oil installations. We drove the entire day through the brown, brown, brown prairies of Alberta, to Wabasca, a bit southeast of Fort McMurray. We're almost 1000km north of Calgary, and with Winter hour enacted yesterday, we were driving in the dark at 5PM! There's snow, and I saw the contours of the facilities, but it's too dark to see much - we'll have to wait till tomorrow. I'm now in a work camp - pretty cool! Ta ta for now because I have to get up at 5:30 tomorrow.

Update: -15°C this morning. Remember, we're far up North. 

The work is hard and dirty, but I love it! I'm really fortunate to work here:

I actually made that last (oops, unshaven!) picture to put on my resume (fake it till you make it!), but then I remembered you can't do that here (no personal info whatsoever because companies don't want to get sued for discrimination). 

By the way, don't expect too many pictures from oil sites like this one. Usually pictures are not allowed. A good thing I was persistent here...

So you all wanted to know what exactly we're doing here? We're building & spraying a surface below the huge oil tank, to catch any oil that may leak from valves...

Below is the camp we live in, 8.5km from the work site. The red building on the left is a noisy electricity generator. You may not say so, but the camp is comfortable and the food is nothing short of amazing - I've been trying out all the different dishes, which prompted my boss to say "okay let's go...well, when 'The Stomach' is ready". I guess that's me :-)