time to science
Were it not for a hold up in the delivery of one of the chemicals to fill my ant traps I would right now be somewhere between here and Jindabyne, in a direction more towards Jindabyne than here. Alas, there has been such a hold up, so my trip shall not begin til tomorrow.
What makes this trip so special is that it isn't just for my own amusement, it is FOR SCIENCE. Yes, I'm finally going to get into doing my own fieldwork. I'm going to have to find appropriate sites to set a line of ant traps from elevations of 1000m to 2100m and maybe keep going to the top of mount Kosciusko at 2228m for the hell of it. I'm going to begin exploring the wilderness in the name of science.
The two weeks I'm going to be gone is probably the longest amount of time I have spent without people I know in many years, actually maybe the longest ever. Since I left school I have been given the choice to pursue such far off quests, but have most times chosen to stay in Sydney, as thats where people I know and my projects with them are. This has been ok, but it's become time where I realise I've devoted too much to the human world and not enough to the other exciting stuff thats out there. Maybe it will show that my views of the wilderness are overly romanticised, or maybe it will remind me of all the dreams of such places that I have kept latent for so long. I will soon find out and am very much looking forward to it. The human world has done me well, now time to meet it's alternative.
What makes this trip so special is that it isn't just for my own amusement, it is FOR SCIENCE. Yes, I'm finally going to get into doing my own fieldwork. I'm going to have to find appropriate sites to set a line of ant traps from elevations of 1000m to 2100m and maybe keep going to the top of mount Kosciusko at 2228m for the hell of it. I'm going to begin exploring the wilderness in the name of science.
The two weeks I'm going to be gone is probably the longest amount of time I have spent without people I know in many years, actually maybe the longest ever. Since I left school I have been given the choice to pursue such far off quests, but have most times chosen to stay in Sydney, as thats where people I know and my projects with them are. This has been ok, but it's become time where I realise I've devoted too much to the human world and not enough to the other exciting stuff thats out there. Maybe it will show that my views of the wilderness are overly romanticised, or maybe it will remind me of all the dreams of such places that I have kept latent for so long. I will soon find out and am very much looking forward to it. The human world has done me well, now time to meet it's alternative.