Saturday in Edinburgh, Scotland

As promised, no more field trips. These pictures are from our weekend trip to Scotland. These are from Saturday. Some are mine, some are Sarah's, some are Emma's. I might add more pictures as I steal from more people, but at least I have a start. Sunday in Scotland, coming soon. Enjoy!

Lancaster train station, heading out

The group, from the left it's Salter, Laura, Emma, Sandy, Sarah

Finding the hostel

Edinburgh Castle

The girlies

On the back of a cannon, Gburg style

The city

All of us

Where we had dinner, where I had haggis

Our room, blue & clean

Ingleborough Field Trip, Part 2

Week 3 of our class was centered around ecology, and we went to Ingleborough again. These are pretty much just more mountain pictures. Thankfully we weren't expected to scale the mountain again; we just walked for about an hour on an easy trail.

BIG bull

This is a sunken cave.

The Class

Okay, I promise no more field trip pictures. Scotland is coming up soon.

Ingleborough Field Trip

This was our second field trip for the geology class. These pictures are from Ingleborough. We climbed a mountain to look at rocks. There were sheep definitely putting us to shame since they were jumping all around while we were awkwardly trying to not fall on our faces from the wet ground and steep rocks. Well, that's what I was trying to do, anyways. John, as usual, was several yards ahead of us at all times and laughing at us with the sheep. It was very pretty, and again I was very happy to have real hiking boots and not tennis shoes.

Beautiful skies

Crazy John Gunner, back at it on the mountain.

The Class

Glad we survived the mountain

Heysham Head Field Trip

For the first day of our week of geology, we went on a field trip to Heysham Head to look at rocks. It was a really small, beautiful town right on the water. Our professor made us wear some humorous looking hard hats to protect us from falling rocks. Ask if we saw any rocks fall. We didn't. And kids and dogs and parents were running around where we were with no protection. That's okay, gives some interesting photos of us that I don't know I would get at any other time.

Note: Some of these pictures are mine and some are Emma's. I can't be credited for all these pics. Also, if you want to see a picture bigger, just click on it, and the image should come up bigger and easier to see.

Me & Emma, ready for the excursion.

The class. You have no idea how glad I was to bring hiking boots.

These were graves. Note the spot for the heads to the left. These must have been for short people.

Rocky beaches are hard to walk on.

Looking for grain size, texture, sphericity and roundness. I believe this was sandstone. It was deposited by wind or water, obvious by the well-sorting of the grains. Yes, I am a nerd.

The man in the white hat is Dr. John Gunner, our professor. That man can run on rocks; left all of us in the dust. Cool guy, knows his stuff.

Walking back to the bus through town.