After the excitement of 7 days glorious sunshine, we have been grounded in the tent for the last two (Friday and Saturday). The weather has not been bad as such, but very cloudy and we are sitting in fog again. However, I think both of us needed some rest so it is not all bad. I have been reading The Kontiki Expedition, which is fun and suitable for my trip because it makes me think of adventure!
We are still planning our plane move for Tuesday, so hopefully the weather will be good for that.
I thought you would be interested to see the list of requests we have placed for our plane move next week. Here it is:
- 2 cans CocaCola
- 8 sausages
- 2 eggs
- 1 loaf bread
- 1 block of marzipan
- some kitkats and twix
- 1 bag rowntrees fruit pastilles
- 1 carton pineapple juice
- a few pieces of fresh fruit
I have yet to find out what Roger wants to do with the marzipan, but it sounds good! I am sick of eating Cadburys Dairy Milk now. Many days we have not had lunch, but just survived on chocolate and fruit pastilles. It's not good, but it's too cold to get your hands out to start pasting sardines onto biscuits (the other option), and I've been rushing around all day to get the work done.
Speaking of work, it has gone quite well overall I think. I have 90 samples so far (which is quite a lot considering most weigh more than 1.5kg!), and lots of material for analysing. The rocks have been more complicated than I have experienced before, so that has not made life easy. I am also sick of seeing the same rock type everywhere (granodiorite) and not many erratics to speak of. However that is interesting in itself. I hope we can go to some higher elevation sites in the Latady Mountains, to complete the transects of altitudes I have from here. But we'll see.
Right now, I'm enjoying my books, thinking about the next move, and thinking about going home - not too long now!
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