Monday, January 26, 2015


Field Excursion: The Swartland, West Coast, Kalahari and Tankwa Karoo Districts

This field trip involved traveling in the Western and Northern Capes of South Africa, seeing beautiful scenery and having active discussions along the way. Mike Meadows prepared a reader for us full of articles relating to the areas we were visited. Each of us was assigned an article to present to the rest of the class. Some of what I learned was from these articles, and some from Peter, Mike, and Dean’s general knowledge. Each day someone was put in charge of recording the temperature, wind speed, and elevation, and another person, the “navigator,” was put in charge of looking at the maps and figuring out where we were going. Overall the trip was pretty hot. Thinking in terms of metric units takes a little getting used to, especially using Celsius instead of Fahrenheit.


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