Silas and Daniel, here are some photos from an area south of Broome that I visited a couple of years ago. Thought they might be interesting to look at when thinking about what our building might look like, given that our site is apparantly south of Broome. Visiting this place had a really big impact on me. The remoteness of northwestern Australia is probably about as remote as it gets anywhere in the world. The climate is harsh and unforgiving.
These photos were taken at a community on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert - pretty hot and arid. Not sure if our site will be as remote as this but if it is south of Broome it will probably be a pretty harsh environment. Theres not much up there!
I was trying to think about water at this place after we had talked about water in hot dry places on Friday. Water was not too much of a problem here as they had access to a bore. (Although the plumbing broke down when I was there and it takes ages to get anything fixed). It will be very intersting to see what our site offers in terms of water supply.
As you can see from the photos, this site changes dramatically when the rain comes. The place has no rain for a very long time and then when the rain comes it cuts the community off. (To get there you have to drive through the Fitzroy river which swells when the rain comes.) We'll have to check if our site gets such heavy rain as obviously we will have to cater for it.
The other thing about visiting this place was that the difference between night and day temperatures was really extreme. Freezing at night and hot through the day. A good place to use thermal mass.
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