Hello to everyone at Photography Lovers! This is my first blog for the community, but it is part of the 22 days I spent working in Santiago de Cuba, which I have been describing from the photos I took during my visit and things I remember from those days. On this occasion, practically one of the last I will talk about the province, I will tell you about the geological field work I did there with several workers of Geominera Oriente, in a small town called El Caney.
From left to right (Justo Ortega, topographer; Walfrido Alfonso, geophysicist; Iris Méndez, geologist; Terina Marrero, geologist; Eroel Carmenates, geologist)
We started field work on March 6.
Our team consisted of a total of 8 people from the first day and varied in number as the other two trips continued due to the complicated geology of the area we studied.
During our work we had to enter several farms of the farmers in the area, some of them received us angrily, others were really kind.
At that time, the santiagueros complained about the droughts in the province that did not allow them to sow seeds because the soil was too hot and they would not germinate, so they prayed for rain to cool the soil. Some have a watering can for the crops, but others do not.
The farmers also complained about the thieves who take their animals and their few crops. Every time a stranger enters their land, they are put on alert, and sometimes they have taken out their weapons to threaten them.
The next day, March 7, we returned to El Caney.
This time we started on a road called Cementerio-Los Pinos.
In one of the farms we entered (Francisco's) the owner of the place was very kind to us. That day we also had to climb a very high mountain that killed the whole troop.
Beautiful areciphal limestone that we found in situ
On March 13, we went out again for field work.
In red I show you the place where we arrived.
This time we were assigned a new driver, José Ángel Dubergel. He drives a truck, I had never ridden in a truck before, at first I was a little scared.
We went to Pinos Altos within the town of El Caney. We saw many animals as in the previous tours. That day we went through an area so steep that it became dangerous.
We had lunch in the field, surrounded by vegetation and animals. At that moment a sheep came up to us looking for food and the surveyor gave it a mango peel from one of the surrounding trees.
Here you can see a goat swallowing a mango that fell from the bush, which was very funny because it ate as if someone was going to take the fruit out of its mouth.
Our work consisted mainly of documenting the geology of the areas we worked in and taking the original rock samples from the site to the laboratory. This will be important to make the cartographic sheet of Santiago de Cuba at a scale of 1:50 000.
All photos were taken by me
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