Kleine Monde

Today was busy, so not enough time to properly write. Instead, to give you an idea of what I do all day,  here is the schedule of today’s fieldwork.

• 6:00 – Wake up
• 6:30 – Drive to first site (Kleine Monde)
• 7:50 – Collect samples (Kleine Monde West, 2 locations)
• 8:10 – Collect samples (Kleine Monde East, 2 locations)
• 10:00 – Back at room, start filtering samples
• 12:30 – Drive to site (Bushmans estuary)
• 13:15 – Collect samples (Bushmans, 2 locations)
• 14:50 – Back at room, start filtering samples
• 19:30 – Realise samples contained more sediment than expected and that filtering will take twice as long as planned, eat food, drink some wine
• 21:40 – Still filtering, drink tea, lots of tea
• 23:25 – Finished filtering samples, time to clean up
• 23:50 – Off to bed!

Louw on her way to sample Bushmans estuary