Bismillah,
Ni ialah hot creek. Eh, "volcanoe"? Tengok gambar yang besar sikit kat bawah ni:
SubhanaAllah, cantik kan the blue lake? Acidic though. Tak boleh swim dalam tu.
When the volcano got erupted, it left behind big craters and eventually filled with water and sediments.
My second assignment was to map volcanic rocks in Big Pine area. This was a lot harder than the first one, in terms of the hiking difficulties and weather. It was harder to map too, because when volcano erupted, they could behave like a flow or tercampak sana sini in a chaotic way. Therefore, you gotta trace all of the different ages and they might be sitting next to each other macam adik beradik pula (so identical). The worse thing here was that I had to hike up one of the cinder cones. It wasn't that steep, just around 300m up high, BUT the rocks are unconsolidated; you hike up one step up, it will drag you down by 2 steps. Macam forever baru sampai atas T_T. Unfortunately, I did not have any pictures taken during this assignment (Focus lah konon2nya). For the first time in this field camp, I was enthusiastically eager to start mapping as early as 7 am, because by 10 am, the area will be so hot like a sizzling pot! You are not only getting heat from the sun, but also from the heated rocks. By 12pm, dah rasa macam daging salai and it was ramadhan. Allahuakbar, banyaknya cobaan!
The mapping lasted for 3 days and I did survive this too! ;) Alhamdulillah!
Whenever I complained this to emak, she reminded me "look at the bright side, jangan mengeluh, kena rasa bersyukur dapat peluang tengok macam-macam ciptaan Allah". Betul tu, thanks emak! ;)
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