Monday, August 11, 2008

Gum Boots and Vegemite








Now it's my turn to throw in my "artsy fartsy" photos and give a little more detail on the adventure.

We are out for another few days of field work. It will be the unstoppable four onthis field adventure, myself, Eric, Christine, and Rob (our more than gracious kiwi host). THe goal of this adventure (besides the obvious of finding traces of faults in the hillsides, and ourselves) is to find ourselves some new field wear from the thrift stores (our curent gum boots (mine curtousey of WHOI) are great, but we need more authentic kiwi wear), mainly a bush jacket and some nice bush hats, pictures of these great items to come.


From our last field excursion (reported by eric below) I grabbed some nice photos depicting the greatness of the sheep/mountain contrast found in this currently cold and wet world.





Notice the distinct sheep/mountain characteristics found in N Zed




Eric and Christine hard at work in the field (also note the distinct contrast)

Well, that's my little bit for now, we'll let you know how things go after our next adventure ahead. SOem more rain and a ferry crossing to the South Island are on the horizon. FOr now I'll leave you with an "artsy fartsy photo" of just your average NZ countryside stream.





3 comments:

Unknown said...

What are vegemites? Are they little mites that are vegetarians?

Nice BLOG... we will pass on the link.

Dad and Mom

Anonymous said...

Those are beautiful "artsy fartsy" photos! Is it possible to make them clickable? if you click on the ones from the post below, they get bigger
-Jess (eric's sister)

Anonymous said...

Eric it's Chris Wiles! New Zealand looks awesome man keep up the good work and have a good time. I'll check back here now and then to see more.