On September 3 Karen and I went to do a refresher scuba diving course in Shell Harbour. Our dive instructor Mick had clearly been diving in the area forever, and all of the creatures knew him and want to play with us. We got to feed a massive blue grouper, and see a bunch of eels, a ray, and even a cuttlefish ink!
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| HOT BOD ALERT: Karen and I definitely looked like Ralphie from A Christmas Story |
On Saturday, we had another fieldtrip centered to the Wodi Wodi park, where we went on a bushwalk. Wodi Wodi is a sacred indigenous site. Along the way, we saw the affects of fire on local landscapes, and made friends with a bunch of leeches. I was lucky enough to get the first leech of the trip, probably because I’m the best. It rained for most of the day, which wasn’t ideal, but otherwise it was a cool trail.
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| Noah and I at the top of the Wodi Wodi trail. Note my awesome geologizing outfit. |
Sheila and I spent the rest of the weekend in Tomerong at my roommate Jake’s house. Tomerong is near Jervis Bay, which is a big whale-watching place with lots of nice beaches. Although Sunday’s weather was even worse (an epic low pressure system created an even more epic windstorm, the power was out between Tomerong and Wollongong, which is about an hour and a half by train) we still got to see all of the beaches, and explore the town a bit.
FUN FACT: Australian soils are super infertile because there hasn’t been any sweet geology in awhile. The soils are as old as Squidney, formed from even older rocks, and have had a long time to become leached and degraded.
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