It's now 2.5 weeks since I've gotten to Ireland and started on my Geology mapping project now and have pretty much settled into some sort of a daily routine.

I get up in the morning at 8.36am, after exactly 5 snoozes on my phone alarm (which starts ringing at 8am), have breakfast, which consists of a cup of coffee, cornflakes with sugar, and two slices of peanut butter-jelly toast. Then it's off to the fields at 9.30am, where we stay out till about 5pm (or supposed to, although as it has been, we've only stayed out till about 3-4pm, cos we've finished all we wanted to cover, which is about 0.5km^2 a day.) It's not the toughest job on earth, when the weather is good, although we quite often have to battle the elements - and not just the weather, it could be the horrible midges, knee-deep bogs, or shoulder-height grass (of course, subjective to whose shoulder you use... ;p)

In any case, it's all been fairly "smooth-sailing" thus far, since we got here. No mishaps yet, although I did lose my geological hammer in the field, sadly.

Have taken lots of pictures so far and also managed to crack my small digicam's LCD screen, while in the field. Some of the pictures taken to date:

One of the places we've been parking at, where we then head off to the fields.

It's quite lovely when the sun is out, although it's quite often cloudy and drizzling/raining (which explains the puddles)

The rocks that I see in the field. This must have been a phyllite outcrop. ;p

"Kenny's Den" - found when we went into someone's garden to look for rocks (you get some amazing outcrops in people's gardens sometimes...)

But sighz, it's another 3.5 weeks to go!

Labels: Geology, Ireland, Mapping