We're quickly into a routine - woken by the call to prayer from the Imam (accompanied by the howling of dogs) just before 6am, breakfast at 7, off to the battlefield at 8.30, an hours break for lunch which we have on site, back to the accommodation around 4.30pm, record keeping, documentation and correspondence before dinner at 7, and then more record keeping, documentation and correspondence until bed beckons at about 10pm. It's a long tiring day, but everyone is pretty dedicated to the project and we all get on pretty well, so the days pass quickly and enjoyably. Occasionally we do something a little different. Last night, for example Melbourne University hosted us to dinner in Canakkale at a waterfront restaurant on the Dardanelles. Sitting there enjoying good food and watching the constant stream of ships pass by is one of life's great pleasures.

It was a bit hot in the field today - 31 degrees when we finished at about 4.15. We worked around Quinn's Post and went right down to Shrapnel Valley. It was very steep and the scrub and terrain were such that the GPS had a few problems receiving satellites at times. We also found the remnants of some of the front line trenches on both sides. The closest they got was about 27 metres. I stood on the Anzac side and threw a stone at one of my colleagues who was in the Turkish position. Even an old fogey like me could make the distance, and we know there were places where the trenches were even closer. All in all a very fruitful day.