A Visit to Woodside



Woodside outside

This week, I had a few projects for work that I needed to complete while in Perth, so I spent most of the week glued to the computer in the hotel room. Turn....work...brain...back....ON! uhnn.....aaarg.


Woodside ground floor lobby

At the end of the day Thursday, I met Chris in the lobby of the Woodside building for a tour of his workplace.
 
Like most other major companies, Woodside is high security where everyone is working on highly confidential projects. So in order for me to get in, Chris had to meet me in the lobby, get me a visitor badge at the mothership desk with the transporter beam lights, and escort me around the building. I wasn't able to take a picture of his desk in cubicle land or they would have had to forcibly remove me from the premises. 
 

Brick building (in first photo) from umpteenth floor

In cubicle land, everyone speaks in hushed tones. Chris quietly introduced me to few people that he works with; they were very friendly, in a quiet way, and we all spent a few minutes chatting about Perth, quietly. 

Chris took me up to the umpteenth floor where we looked out on the Swan River. (Yep, all that blue is river, no ocean). You can see the Mounts Bay Waters apartments (where we are staying) just across the Hwy on the right, the pond in front of our apartment where we often walk, and the beginnings of Kings Park (the cliff side and top). 

Swan River from umpteenth floor