I had a productive 14 hour marathon day of fieldwork in the Cascade (first two pictures) which included running around on an enormous landslide looking for exposures of the material through the mature forest. The rivers were incredibly low which made for some great stress-free crossings. A highlight was visiting the "Empty Tarn," a mostly dry pond with mysterious rocks from a variety of sources- all within the landslide though.With good weather, low swell, low tide and remarkably well-behaved sandflies, I took to the coast around Jackson Head to check out the strangely deformed rocks. I crossed over to Ocean Beach on the DOC track then headed south along the coast passing several big sea caves before reaching a deep water gut I would have had to swim if I wished to keep going. I was hoping to find evidence of uplift along this coast, such as uplifted sea caves. I turned around and walked back to Ocean Beach. I ignored the DOC sign saying "Danger...Jackson Head is impassible..." and continued rock hopping my way along the coast. There were a few interesting scrambling/climbing bits at the Head, but I managed to pass it with little difficulty, and stay completely dry. Around the point large sharp boulders of limestone made for slow but interesting travel. It was a beautiful stretch of coast, and a good day for it.
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