Friday, September 2, 2011

First excursion!

My class went to our first excursion, first we went to a esker some miles away.
The teacher wanted us to pick up so many different minerals as possible and try to identify them, then we used mining pick and hammer for the first time (the stones are so much harder than they look)
Here's a picture with view over the place


I found a stone with pretty rings on


I climbed pretty high, it's more steep than it looks like!
If you extend the size then you might see a guy almost at top with red jeans (that's me)



We went to another place nearby to see some rare formed stones.


And the view around this place




August 30

Some days ago I went to the forest with three classmates, two of them picked some mushrooms while I was looking after funny rocks. I found a lot of quartz, epidot and feldspar.
We also found two frogs at different locations.

We went back to the reindeer skeleton to check the quality of the skull and horns but the quality was worse than I remember so I decided to not pick it with me, while looking around we saw the jaw at left inside the forest.
We decided to go there and we found a place with a lot of big stones and a lot of reindeer horns but they were too old and broken.
Still, this place was strange, calm and beautiful, I guess it's some kind of favorite place to drop horns.