Hey,

We just played the best practical joke yet this trip. Sky fell asleep during Tribe and did not arise until everyone else was leaving, at which point we told him that it was five in the morning (really ten thirty) and he bought in under the guise that we were to do an early day to avoid the heat. The gullibility factor involved had to be off the charts. We all got a good laugh out of that.
Today we returned to Oyster Bay probably for the last time and took core samples that will be carbon dated based on the peat. We also took a set for Chris to analyze back in England. We also leveled it all into a real USGS (United States Geological Survey) benchmark left from the University of Virginia. This required a team to walk a good three miles down the road to an abandoned house that looked like it could be left over from days of shoot outs and a slow pace of life. We found another spanner in the marsh, a plus due to our low supply. Sky and Giles boasted a core of 250 cm in some hard sand.
This afternoon was the all-scholastic beach-soccer game. One team emerged victorious with a margin of two yet all the players showed their true colors with a killer goal keeping strategy from Kathleen.
The eminent Andrea gave her lecture on tsunamis and earthquakes, and the consensus is that she does some really cool research. We were enlightened on the finer points of subduction and fault lines. It was also very interesting to hear how her research is done with similar techniques, at times, to the ones that we are using. Besides, that some of the combinations of data that she uses are inconceivable and we were blow away with the connections that her research requires.

Core well and good night.
The Team