The internet has been very sporadic over the past few days due to t-storms (thunderstorms) both off shore and on land. This has cause great excitement (the rain not the lack of internet) in the camp. Please expect some out of order posts in the coming days if the storms sub-side. On Tuesday I woke up to what I thought was the sound of other BAPers snoring but was in fact a rather large rainstorm. I jumped into action and threw a pillow at Didi to awaken her from her peaceful rest so that we could grab all the bottles we could find and race down to the wellfield. We grabbed our breakfast and every bottle in sight and raced to the wellfield.
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| *sings 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head'* |
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| Attempting to fix our only Sharpie |
The rain had stopped when we arrived but this allowed us to go and collect the stem (water that runs down the tree trunks) and throughflow (water that interacts with the tree canopies) samples from various locations and to sample from two boreholes that would be affected by the rain. Then to my delight (and less of poor sleep-deprived Didi) it started to rain again. This allowed us to collect more stem and throughflow and to pump the boreholes again to see if the rain had reached the water table yet. In four hours of running about we managed to collect 25 samples- pretty good going and that was only the morning!
Today, whilst Didi and I were slaving away in the lab, the boys were out geologising in the wellfield when another rain storm hit. Mike did me proud and prized the geologist out of the dry car and got them to collect rain at different points in the storm as it passed over head. They managed to collect 2.5 US gallons in about 4 minutes- now that is some heavy rain!
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