Schoolwork...

This past week has been pretty intense concerning schoolwork. It's the final wave of papers and quizzes before finals, which start in a few weeks. It's shocking how quickly this semester has gone, it's tough to believe that i'll be starting week 11 on monday.

DAY 5
We started the day after a cold, cold night by going to Tnorala, a meteorite site. The crater was two kilometers wide, and maybe half a kilometer high. It was really cool to walk inside of it and look around, quite amazing. We spent alot of today in the cars, covering distance. We had a pretty relaxed afternoon at Kings Canyon Resort, basically a place for campers. There weren't any rooms, just sinks and bathrooms around big patches of open area for you to sleep. They had a pool though, and we had a really good time swimming and making fools of ourselves. There were dingoes too, just roaming around the campsite. They warned us not to feed the dingoes because they're trying to keep them from coming around, at one point one got into camp and stole someone's granola bar. This was the view for the vast majority of the drive.


DAY 6
Last night it actually rained on us. In the Outback, where it very, very rarely rains. Luckily, it was only enough to wake me up, it wasn't too much. The swags are pretty waterproof, and after the rain woke me up I pulled the flap over my head and was ok for the rest of the night. We did the Kings Canyon walk today, which is a long walk around the rim of an enormous canyon. It was beautiful. We also visited a place they call the 'Garden of Eden'. We had to climb down the canyon to get to a little corner of it where all the water collects and supports some amazing wildlife in this tiny sheltered oasis. We drove some more in the afternoon, and had a rest stop over some salt flats. The salt flats, plus the clouds from the rain last night, plus the sun made for one of my favorite pictures from the trip.