Once again to be greeted by brilliant sunshine, rising and shining was a slow process (Ian providing a welcome waking hot cuppa to early risers. And a singularly unwelcome cold one to late arrivals) but by lunch the terrace surveying and meltwater river recce had commenced.
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| Basalt columns - eat your heart out Devil's Causeway! |
The area by the braided channel turned out to be a geomorphological paradise full of many exciting ‘physical features’.
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More basalt columns - scale provided thanks to
A Nicholson, a size 9? |
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Glacier snout and pro-glacial stream and
even perhaps a small push moraine? |
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A masterpiece of a crag and tail
Scale provided by E Hunnable (far right) |
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Bedding planes, dykes, scree collection and
some terminal moraines |
The loo fell on top of our resident Oxbridge graduate, Nobel prize winner and omniscient, omnipotent prize ass, catching him in the act! However we restored it to its former glory (though not for long!). A beautiful sunset heralded the approach of a low.
It came overnight, with wind, rain and loo destroying force! The end of our tropical heat-wave.
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