CSG and Catalina (who quickly earned the handle Catalingles) react to an erudite joke from NDP, while we wait for empanadas on the last day in Caldera. I can't recommend this empanada place enough, and I'm sad to have only discovered horno carne just as we were leaving. Empanadas in the traditional Chilean style are clearly the way to go for fieldwork. I wonder if they'll sponsor us. (Photo JF Parham)
A fairly typical breakfast scene: laptops, fieldnotes, photo SD cards, receipts, and empty coffee cups. We had a mobile WiFi unit with us (it allowed us to post these updates!); having consistent WiFi also allowed us to indulge in massive Google Earth usage. The TP is for wrapping delicate fossil specimens. (Photo CSG)
The beach town of Puerto Viejo, ~30 km south of Caldera. We were refused service at its only empanada place. That wasn't much fun, but our palta y palmito (avocado and palm heart) lunch out of the back of the trucks overlooking outcrop was way better. (Photo NDP)
Jim fulfilling his life mission as a naturalist, moments after we team-caught a Liolaemus specimen (a South American iguanid lizard). When you're an integrative biologist, fossil and modern reptiles are just one, long fun continuum. (Photo NDP)
Ah, the gas station in downtown Caldera. We had three field trucks to tank up on a semi-regular basis: Geisha (in red); the Dimax (in white); and Mario's new, as-of-yet-unnamed truck (obscured in the far background). Yes, the station attendants look like racecar drivers. (Photo JF Parham)
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