Thursday, 2 December 2010

Otway trip Day 2 - Dave's Team

Sean and Tim synchronising GPSs
Dean was not going to get lost!
Dave clowns around
while Tim works
First fossil!
Second fossil!
Dave and Tim confer
Mary looks
Third fossil!
Tim on a rock
Mary looks at Dean who looks at rock
Mary and Tim
Mary in her stunning
rock-hopping gear
Trekking
Tall rock
Mary mountain goat
Wendy crosses the narrow bit
Crossing
Tim checks the cliff
Tim checking the cliff
Mary and John on the narrow bit
Two hands
Crossing the divide
John hugs the cliff
Close up of rock
The view
Trekking
Lunch
Cliff
Climbing down
Crossing pretty rocks
Oh, John
Crew at the end of the walk

Otway Trip Day 1 - Mike's Team

View from the top
Fossil!



Another fossil!
Mike unpacks his lunch


Disappearing into the mist
Sean looks as he walks



Another fossil!
Pip in the background
Pretty rock!



Sean with a bit of Eric the Red


Pip and Sean
Brown river

Otway Trip Day 1 - Dave's team

The team setting out
Mary and Dave check out some nodules
Dave and Tim trek across the rocks
Dave and Mary up close on a conglomerate layer
Dean checks out a cliff
Mary and Tim forge on ahead
Mary and Tim disappear into the mist
Tim the intrepid
Mary looking...
Tim trekking
Mary deciding where to look next
Dean looks at the rock platform
Tim decides some height may help
Dave gets close to a wave
Dave treking
Dave and Tim in the distance
Everybody looking
Dean checks out some nice formations
Dave leans forward with his big pack
Photographing our fossil
The toe bone
Dave chips out the toe bone
Tim records the GPS
Tim records the GPS
The waves crash
Tim sits down to make more notes
Dean looks closely


Checking the GPS instructions
Tim checks the GPS instructions
Dean on some damp rocks
Dave chips and Tim points
Tim ready for action




Dave chips away


The diggers after the downpour
The diggers not smiling much