Just got back from my geology (Sedimentology and Paleontology class) field trip. A whole weekend - I was a bit nervous because I didn't really know many people in the class - definitely not good when you have to share bunks with some randomer over the weekend!
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| Stop in Fielding |
We took the never ending bus up north. I felt so queasy on the bus I was so glad when we stopped and got off the bus in Fielding. It was such a cool place - it was kind off like stepping back in time back to the 1920s or something - it was cute!
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| Look at all the sheep! |
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| Escaped Sheep! |
We spent most of the day beside the road looking at this really big outcrop - I was so done with rocks and sediment and stuff by the end of it!
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| Sedimentary Structures at Rewa Hill |
We passed through some "towns" which were just little shacks with people sitting in the back of their pick up trucks staring at the coaches! Creepy as! We stopped to look over the river terraces and you could see Mt Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe volcanoes! There were so many midges and sheep - sheep EVERYWHERE! At Rewa Hill there was even an escaped sheep right beside us running along the road - it escaped!
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| Cliff lecturing to the class |
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| Weird Plant |
It was actually kind of ridiculous the lack of "health and safety". We were taking samples from the bottom of this sediment cliff and then the next thing I know we're expected to climb all the way to the top of it with out ropes, helmets or anything - it was ridiculously steep and it had rained and the whole thing was just really muddy and falling away. I remember sitting on a bit of harder sediment three quarters of the way up and feeling it starting to give way and move as the people beside me were digging. On the way down part of it did give way and a girl in my group was left holding on to a flax plant a few meters above the ground and then just had to let go and slide down. I fell so many times and slide for meters down it on my front , back, every which way... crazy
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| Climbing up the side of the cliff |
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| Covered in mud |
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| My Geology group |
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| Dinosaurs and Flintstones inWanganui |
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| Funny Pak N Save Man |
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| Where we stayed |
