Reflection:
This week I went on 2 field trips. The first one to 3 sisters falls which is a famous hard hike near julian. The second place I went to was sunset cliffs and PLNU for more landscape photos. We fine tuned the writing pieces from the week before. We also processed a lot of images. Humanities: Contrastpiece:https://docs.google.com/document/d/13VfdsytG-qlJoWfClx7p34KTJDc3fO4vtckix55-zv0/edit Windansea by Pablo Robin A few miles South of Torrey Pines, Windansea beach drops in close to downtown La Jolla and stretches for a mile. The water is cold yet refreshing, especially in the summer when the temperature of the air is hot and the sun is up for the whole day. The beach is lined with small cliffs and large rocks, but on the shoreline the water breaks ferociously on the white sand. Ice plants line the cliffs new growth over dead and purple flowers arise from the otherwise green plants; the rocks on the shoreline wear smooth from constant crashing waves. Small sand crabs burrow in the wet sand to hide from the waves and predators. Many seagulls fly in the air searching for an opportunity to swoop down to have a meal. Rarely a pelican will pass by the horizon line, the mighty animal flies close over the ocean looking through the clear blue water for a snack. On an overcast day, the water looks green and clear because it is not reflecting the blue skies that are usually over the ocean. In the early morning when there is no wind the water becomes glass. The surfers go out and the wind comes and ruins the tranquility of the water. When the sun finally comes out the people start to gather on the white sand. The tide rises and chases people from the sand. Footprints leading towards the stairs.The sun dips below the horizon, the sky darkens to shades of orange and pink. The ocean begins to calm itself again, The people go to sleep, the animals go to sleep and the ocean goes back to tranquility. Chemistry: I woke up early with excitement coursing through my body. I got out of bed and immediately got ready. I filled my pack with snacks water and my camera. I was preparing for the worst. I arrived to school and we soon left. We got in the van it was dirty. We didn't have an AUX cord we almost had to resort to listening to a CD full of Bon Jovi. Luckily we stopped at Vons on the way to the hike and purchased an AUX cord. The drive was beautiful, once we got off the 8 freeway. We started going higher and higher in altitude. We got so high the we could seethe clouds move quickly over the peaks of the surrounding mountains and hills. However we did get lost because of the limited connection that we had and the fact that somebody flipped the signs around. We still made it to the trailhead. I got out of the car It was pretty chilly, but not for long. I took my first step on the three sisters falls hike. Then we breezed through the first mile it was a wide trail with mostly downhill sections. We got to see a great view of the falls from far away they had a lot of water. Once we went down the first mountain we entered the ravine which had a small river running through it. We were told by Andrew that there could be a lot of poison oak in the ravine. Me being on the trip for photos I saw a great places to get a photo of a small waterfall. I went through the thin path sideways to get to the small waterfall. Andrew saw where I was and told me that I might've brushed against some poison oak. I came back really carefully to make sure I didn't get any Urushiol on my skin. Urushiol is the chemical found in poison oak. When contact is made with your skin Urushiol goes into the second layer and causes an allergic reaction. I wasn't to worried about it because it happens to people all the time. I didn't want to take a bath in oatmeal either so I was hoping that I didn't make contact and that if I did that going in the falls would help me. So I pushed on continuing down the second mountain. That mountain had ropes going down it because it walking down it without them would be really dangerous. It was really fun going down them because I had never done anything like that on a hike. Once we got down the ropes we started hiking towards the waterfalls. There was a bunch of traversing on one part and a fellow hiker Will fell and was luckily saved by Russell another member of the team. We crossed the small river a few times using small sometimes wet rocks to get across. We finally made it to the falls and we took some photos for a while they were looking amazing. But we started getting hot so we went on a waterslide. Thats right a waterslide. The 1st waterfall made the rock into a smooth surface that you could slide off and we had a lot of fun going down it. When we were finished refreshing in the falls we hiked back to the trail head. We went a better way to the ropes and on the way we ran into a damsel in distress. It was probably the high 90s when we were going up the ropes. The ropes went up a sandy slope that felt like for every 3 steps we took we took 1 step back. We got to the top of the ropes and the damsel wasnt felling to good but luckily we found her friends and they called the rangers and from there It was smooth sailing. We made it back to the cars completely gassed and returned to school. The best part was that I may have not touched the poison oak because I never reacted to it.
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