The last few days have been pretty awesome. I got to do some real field work. :) We went up the hill to the place where the drilling was, and Mike and Jose and I made up a grid to map the area on, which Mike and I then photographed and mapped. It was tough work but a lot of fun. Also the weather has been*fantastic* for the last three days, so we finished just in time - today is cloudy and cold and tomorrow through Wednesday call for rain in the forecast. (It was nice enough that I got a bit of a sunburn on my arms and my nose has come over all freckly. oops. -_- My hands are nice and tanned though!) In this picture I have just finished painting some lines.


Yesterday I also learned how to drive a Zodiac boat, which was pretty cool. Mike and I weren't sure if the helicopter was going to be able to come up for us in time, so we took the boat across the lake and were just getting ready to start the hike down the hill when it showed up, so we took the boat back and got back in time for supper, instead of an hour late. yay!

The view was pretty spectacular from up there, too.

A handful of the remaining people in camp left on Saturday. Brian, Iqbal, Jose, and Gary have all left, so things are even quieter than before. I think pretty much everyone has a cabin to themselves.l-r: me, Mike, Jose, Brian, and Gary.

a caribou!

I saw a real live caribou yesterday, yay!


My camera is not so good with the wide shots, though, so that's why there is an arrow pointing him out. If I can get my hands on some of Britt or Gary's pics I'll post a better one.

I also got a nice shot of a raven:


And it was Jeppe and Tom's last day in camp yesterday. They are heading back to school soon, so off they went to spend most of a day in Kangerlussuaq (which apparently has a golf course! so they are going golfing...), and then leave for Copenhagen. Camp has been much quieter without them.
(Britt, Tom, me, and Jeppe. yes, I know, I look even shorter than usual. I'm actually standing in a hole. :P)

foodz

So we have a new cook/chef person at camp. Last night was his second night here; this was dessert:


Yes, that is in fact deep-fried ice cream with whipped cream and maple syrup. I made sure to skip for extra time last night. *sigh*

aaaaargh.

ETA: never mind. apparently it depends on the browser you're using or something. bleh.

why, why, WHY can I never seem to prevent the floating words that show up to the right of the pictures I'm posting? They are never there in the preview!

if anyone reading this knows how to work blogspot enough to fix it, please, I'm begging you, help me get rid of this ridiculous little quirk.

I'm back in camp and the weather has definitely turned cold - Lex's mittens came in super-handy, I really didn't think I was going to have to wear them right after I got back! Very glad to have them.

It was snowing yesterday up at the drillsite and the other spot where Brian was out in the field. Then it hailed and rained a bit in camp and I got lucky and snapped a picture of a rainbow. :)

I also had an unexpected visitor to my tent last night in the form of the largest spider I have seen since I got here. I was pretty sure it was on its last legs (heh) as it didn't really move much when I picked it up on a piece of paper, so I took the opportunity to get a couple of pictures of it, and then put it over in a less exposed corner of my tent (the deal being that I didn't put it outside in the 0C temperatures if it stayed out of my hair). About half an hour later I looked over and it was gone, and since I didn't wake up screaming with a spider on my face, I guess it listened. ;)

*gasp* an update

I got to go into the field yesterday. ^_^ It was such a nice change! I'm pretty tired of the computer work, tbh, especially since the weather has been *spectacular*. Perhaps there will be more opportunity later in the season.

Interesting textures abound!

This rock is a neat result of what happens when a rock is metamorphosed, and then goes through retrograde metamorphism - minerals that grew at higher temperatures or pressures are gradually reabsorbed into the rock as its temperature or pressure conditions decrease.

The light-coloured blobs used to be garnets, and I'm unfortunately not sure about the darker stuff, I can't remember what we decided it was.

The second picture is a view from the hill we were working on. The inland ice cap (I almost feel like that should be capitalized... the Inland Ice.) is just barely visible in this picture, which is sadly a bit overexposed. It's in the centre of the picture, if you look straight up from the dark boulder by the lakeshore up towards the horizon line.
Hopefully I will get a closer look sometime soon.