Otways 2009

A great time was had at the Otways last week with about 30 new participants as well as the inevitable core crew.

We camped "under the Koalas" at Bimbi Park:

Gerry puts some newbies through "rock training".

It rained a little:

It blew a lot:

We looked at rocks from a distance and discussed their merits:

We looked at rocks up close and discussed their merits:

We banged things with big hammers:

We banged things with little hammers:

Mary has a little rest after all that hammering:

We played with the new drill:

Our new chairs were very popular!

We washed rocks:

We measured rocks:

Alan drew a map of the rocks:

We found a fossil in the shore platform that we'd walked over for days. Dave had to glue some fragile edges whilst the flies did their best to distract him:

Even Sasha found a bone!