Valiant effort

Spent the most miserable camping night of my life!  Camping in freezing weather with just my 30 degree bag and no tent was much more enjoyable.  I wanted to sleep sans tent.  The mozzies were so persistent.  My bug repellent with 30% DEET was only slightly effective.  I slept in my little cotton Cocoon because of the humidity, and I believe the mozzies went right through.  Got about 1 hour of sleep.  I was too proud to go inside…

Today was about trying to get an idea of the lay of the land and what subjects and attributes make up the data dictionary we need to build.  Drove up Ka’a’awa Valley in a tour bus with a bit of a special tour.  Kept passing movie sets.  I have to laugh at how awestruck people were of the props that were left.  As if being there made them closer to the actors or to the possibility of falling into the movie itself by some black hole.   We did get out to see some unexplained features, that appeared to be archaeological.  One was a small berm.  The other was a historic house foundation probably dating to the early 1800’s.  I  was so excited.  My original interest was to take lidar data and analyze the valley for possible pre-historic features,  and it is possible that here was one of them.  It may not be part of a Taro Terrace but there may be other features in the valley that are able to be correlated to traits of this structure.  Stoked!!

Spent the afternoon with Thomas figuring out our data dictionary terms.  A very smart young man, glad he is my partner.  We are in charge of coming up with geological classifications and attributes and how to best enter them into the Kimble.  We were meant to finish the dictionary tonite, but because the system for doing things is still in the works as we go, we were told not to and do it tomorrow.  Hopefully this does not mean extra work at the last minute to get things done….

They splurged and got a tent from Costco.  Sleeping sans rainfly.  I like to live dangerously, but not mosquito bitten!