I spent several days of the last week scrambling up and down steep slopes, over loose shifting piles of rock, and across wet, slippery, seaweed-covered stone. It was teh awesome.
And my dodgy achilles tendons very kindly waited until I was home to die utterly.
I have seen fossils - oh have I not seen fossils! - and I have identified unconformities, I have recognised the Bouma sequence and I have seen Walther's Law in action. And in a haze of exhaustion on the last day I have protested against the need to leave, because I so badly wanted to go back to the first couple of sites and look at them again with all the experience I had gained at the later ones.
This sedimentary field trip was worth the fee for SXG288 all by itself. Pity I had to suffer through the rest of the module to get to it