Weather is warm during the day and cool at night. Enthusiastic hikers will enjoy the spectacular Australian scenery and nearby white sand beaches. Toasty warm, sweat-producing weather, which was greatly appreciated by the sweat bees. Shade was a highly desirable, sometimes scarce resource, but usually available or produceable. One set of luggage liked Fiji so much that it skipped the trip to the outback.
Nights are cold without a sleeping bag.
James analyzed a slope bioherm and collected samples for his senior thesis with the help of Liza and Shane. James, Doris, and Tania measured the thickness of and described the rocks going from the Frasnian reef slope sediments into the Famennian reef. Shane helped Nat cruise the area to identify different parts of the reef. Studies of the ecology of the microbial reefs are producing interesting results. Nat is documenting the succession of encrustations to constrain niches within the reefs using reef blocks whose porosity was infilled by quartz sand during a sea level low stand.