So today was a delicious day.
From start to finish it was filled with things out of the ordinary.
First thing this morning was repacking the truck after valley of the whales.
This turned out to be abit of a mission.
The next thing was tackling the morning traffic.
So satudays are the cow markets down the road from us.
Which means... uhhh... yeah...
Literally 100's of goddam cows... goddam everywhere...
Literally.
So we start off...
And then next thing we know cows... EVERWHERE...
GRIDLOCK COW TRAFFIC.
Cows in cars.
Cows on cars.
Goats behind cars.
Gamoosas in pickuptrucks.
No idea.
We closed the windows pretty rapidly to avoid any uhh... cow... uhhh... yeah...
They were close enough to poop in the windows...
And at 6am in the morning that is not exactly a good wake up...
Anyway...
To the field... was awesome... was a chill day...
Morning was spent excavating hearths and nailing out the transect so that when the ambassador arrived we had lots of pretty neolithic things to show him...
As it turns out none of the hearths were hearths...
soooooooooo...
yes...
but they were very very exciting for the astrophysists / geomorphologists amoungst us...
long story short the shoreline wasnt supposed to be up that high...
and all the hearths were PERFECT beach sand...
and compacted shell deposits...
havent seen anything like this anywhere else.
So yes...
The ambassador turns up , walks roudn the site, checks out stuff out...
I play photographer...
We return to base.
SUPRISE!
Ambassador has bought wine, beer, beef and sausages from NZ for us...
best. night. of. my. life.
seriously.
after eating "quasi meat" for the last 3 weeks, the taste of actual beef.
just. heaven!
my god.
that is all.
just.
yes.
:3
From start to finish it was filled with things out of the ordinary.
First thing this morning was repacking the truck after valley of the whales.
This turned out to be abit of a mission.
The next thing was tackling the morning traffic.
So satudays are the cow markets down the road from us.
Which means... uhhh... yeah...
Literally 100's of goddam cows... goddam everywhere...
Literally.
So we start off...
And then next thing we know cows... EVERWHERE...
GRIDLOCK COW TRAFFIC.
Cows in cars.
Cows on cars.
Goats behind cars.
Gamoosas in pickuptrucks.
No idea.
We closed the windows pretty rapidly to avoid any uhh... cow... uhhh... yeah...
They were close enough to poop in the windows...
And at 6am in the morning that is not exactly a good wake up...
Anyway...
To the field... was awesome... was a chill day...
Morning was spent excavating hearths and nailing out the transect so that when the ambassador arrived we had lots of pretty neolithic things to show him...
As it turns out none of the hearths were hearths...
soooooooooo...
yes...
but they were very very exciting for the astrophysists / geomorphologists amoungst us...
long story short the shoreline wasnt supposed to be up that high...
and all the hearths were PERFECT beach sand...
and compacted shell deposits...
havent seen anything like this anywhere else.
So yes...
The ambassador turns up , walks roudn the site, checks out stuff out...
I play photographer...
We return to base.
SUPRISE!
Ambassador has bought wine, beer, beef and sausages from NZ for us...
best. night. of. my. life.
seriously.
after eating "quasi meat" for the last 3 weeks, the taste of actual beef.
just. heaven!
my god.
that is all.
just.
yes.
:3
Conditions in the car this morning were a little cramped :S
Barrett and Slaggy shooting in the hearth lithics under Tash's watchful eye
The "hearth" which actually turned out to be a sweet sandpit
The hearth which turned out to be filled with nasty sharp shells :S
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