the GAB patrol - cutting edge science in a truck. that glossy dome belongs to glenn - hope you're wearing sunscreen, mate!
payton's swag. that sleeping bag you see there is my 15 yo down, -20 deg bag... payton took it because its not as warm as his huge synthetic down sleeping bag. oddly enough, we thought it practical to ship sleeping bags sufficient for winter camping in the weminuche to the hottest, driest continent in the country. huh.
some interesting sponbill-type bird. some ranchers have water rights that allow them to make little wetlands like this. makes for a nice camp site.
where does all that space junk land that falls out of the sky? australia! every now and then, one might see a wagon from the 1800s next to a bit of nasa flotsam on some fellow's station...
where are we?!
the australian outback. wow.
glenn opens an artesian well for sampling...
i think even cutting edge science can be a little boring. glenn lying on the ground waiting out a long sample session.
same sample session as before - but this is brian doing a little yoga. payton staved off boredom by photographing his weird colleagues. these are our friends, folks!
meanwhile, back in adelaide.... this is one of the cutest pictures - look how happy those girls are... and they don't even speak the same language! blanka, the 2 yo on the left, is polish and, obviously, only speaks polish. but it didn't stop these two from smiling, laughing, holding hands, imitating each other and babbling in their own languages to one another. its one of those fascinating hurdles that small children so easily over come but that can prove so difficult for adults. it was precious to watch nova and blanka. this was at monarto zoo - a big, open-land zoo that had lots of great animals, but nothing so photogenic as nova and blanka! nova and i went here with two of payton's csiro colleagues - a german fellow and a polish fellow (and his wife, sister, brother-in-law and niece, blanka).
on a hike in a little preserve in adelaide called morialto... we had a great time hanging out with jessica, brian's partner, while the boys did head stands in the outback.
the saturday after GAB sampling trip, we went to the port adelaide festival - a food and arts festival in the transitional bogan 'hood of port adelaide - where nova commandeered her daddy's ice cream cone.
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