For the night of the supermoon eclipse, a bunch of us headed out to our now regular camping spot on the coast. In addition to Alex and myself, three of my friends from the geo department camp out as well. Being a school night, we had to get up quite early in the morning, but all of us stayed up late watching the eclipse. It was lots of fun! We brought tents, but didn’t end up using them, since trying to find two additional flat areas proved quite difficult in the dark. The dew point was a few degrees below the forecasted low for the night, but being right on the coast, some of us woke up a little damp regardless. Fortunately, the sun and wind were enough to dry us off!
Try as I might, my camera is just not suited to taking good night shots (I can only manually change either the exposure time, the ISO, or the f-stop at one time.) A little while ago, I stumbled onto a fundraising page for a neat sounding expedition grant. Now, I am in no position to give money in that way, being a student and all, but figured that, with this challenge, I might fit in on the other side of that grant. I applied on the off-chance, not hoping for anything really, but now I'm shortlisted!! I am, apparently, "one of about 50 people to have made the list from well over 1,000 applications." Is that awesome or what?!
Now I've got to answer some more detailed questions and such, and we'll see where it goes. Based on the other projects, I doubt I'll be any competition, but hey, you never know! It was a friend from geology's birthday so we all headed out to the lake for some woods walking, camping, and campfiring...! I've been to that area before, but only for day-hikes, never overnights. It was beautiful! Most of us slept out on a granite outcrop which jutted out into the lake. Waking up there was spectacular.
Honours time!!
I just spent 5 days in Stewiacke, looking at rock cores for my honours project. Each night, I got to come back to my tent in this lovely patch of woods at Camp Geddie. I love that place so much! It was really strange being there and not having to work on hours of mapping and such after supper though, so much more relaxing than the last time I was there! I drove my sister out to her university yesterday, exciting times! Move in was today, so we spent the night at our Aunt's place. She's a prof at the school, so she gave us a bit of a tour while we walked her adorable and talented dog, Lucy. It was lots of fun! I set up my tent in her backyard, which turns into a forest. It was really beautiful, and offered a respite from my allergies. (My body has not yet taken a liking to furry creatures...)
The only flat area in the yard was right below a drain-pipe, so I was worried I'd get wet if it rained. It pored for hours! Fortunately, my tent kept all the water out, and I was still nice and dry in the morning. Guess who's sister is in town! (If you guessed mine, you're right!) Jocelyn is starting university out here so I rented a car, drove to pick her up from the Moncton Airport and brought here back here. Since we have a rental car, I decided to drag her camping. (She was quite easily dragged, didn't even put up a fight.) I brought her to my favourite spot so far. I have some DOS gear kicking around as well, so she even got her own sleeping bag! It all worked out quite well. Look at how much fun we had! This morning, the sky was just so incredibly beautiful:
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AuthorCarmen has successfully camped for 100 nights out of 365. This blog is a record of those nights outside! Archives
July 2016
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