My job is just so awful!

Going a bit back in time I wanted to share some of my photos from the Bahamas field trip I went on as it was pretty amazing. These are snippets of the non geological photos just so you don't think I wasn't working! We spent the first night in Nassau, which was like any tourist destination. There was three large cruise ships in the harbour and the downtown area was filled with tourists and stalls. All the locals were nice and didn't really pester us too much. Dorte and I caught the local bus in and out of town and both came away with one purchase - a shell each! Our hotel was a big resort on the beach and it was spectacularly empty - I guess we were just before all the American schools break up.











That evening we meet up with the group just 5 geologists and our leader Rankey. We first went to a bar shack across the street from the hotel that sold freshly made Daiquiris and they were yummy. The first of the rum based drinks we were going to be drinking this trip! Following a couple of 'Tricky Daq's' we went off to dinner and had conch salad and conch fritters - conch as we found out is a staple in the Bahamas and I saw and ate plenty of them by the end of the trip. They live in big shells and it is white, slightly chewy and pretty flavourless!! The evening was completed by many hours of karaoke until we were eventually suggested to leave by the barmaid to let the locals carry on! I do have video footage but it is very bad so I am not sharing it!!
























The next morning we flew on a small twin prop plane to Crooked Island. The flight was about an hour south of Nassau over some more beautiful islands surrounded by unbelievable blue waters. Crooked Island airport was basically one runway and the luggage was wheeled out on a trolley and left outside the 'terminal' building where you just picked up your things. They even had an old plane in the bushes just off the runway - I guess they never made it out!! We were staying at the Pittstown Lodge some 40 minutes drive from the airport, right on the northern point. The island is considerably bigger aerially that Nassau, but only has 300 inhabitants so it is pretty quiet!



























The days were spent on the boat out on the carbonate platform snorkeling and looking at the depositional setting of the sediments. We saw every thing from algal tidal flats, tidal inlets, golden oolitic shoals and to the platform edge - the drop off! I shelled a conch and we caught a barracuda andlobster and got nervous when sharks were spotted!






















I would highly recommend Crooked Island and the lodges as a place to go for a very quiet and beautiful holiday and I would not recommend staying in busy Nassau as that it not the true Bahamas. Actually Crooked Island was so quiet I couldnt even get a mobile signal!!