Today was the day that our students broke out into their separate groups and undertook their group projects. We had teams of students scattered around the various locations we visited during our trip doing a range of activities with the skills they have learnt whilst on the trip. I was down at the river site again with Sarah Purnell keeping a watchful eye on 6 groups of students conducting their fieldwork. The weather didn’t start out great which prompted Sarah and I to construct a shelter (I did a similar thing last year, maybe we can have a shelter building day next year..). The waves at the beach were really quite substantial today which meant that a few projects had to be manipulated for safety reasons, but all in all we had some great work today and the sun did come out and shine on us for a bit.
The weather was even less kind on the students up on Etna, but geography students are made of stern stuff. Tonight the students are starting to prepare their work for presentations tomorrow afternoon.