"If it didn't rain you had to take water out of the creeks.

"Now round about when we first went over there around about the July August the monsoon is still developing and all the creeks and the pools are green slime. We had to take water from green slimy pools that had been lying there for possibly six or eight months. We used to brush the slime away and then fill our water bottles and put in chlorine tablets to purify the water. After a while you didn't know whether you were drinking water or slime and it didn't really make any difference and most of your water you consumed was by coffee or some other beverage."

SERGEANT BOB BUICK