The Adventures of Kerri & Matt – Page 158

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Trabi Tour

Posted on December 1, 2015 3:49 pm by Kerri & Matt 1 Comment

Note: This is being posted 5 years later because Kerri and Matt apparently got lazy at this part of the trip and there is a big gap between Jordan and Christmas with no posts.

We took a tour to drive a Trabant, which was a “car” made in East Germany during the Cold War.

There was a bright pink one.

But the one we got was giraffe print.

It was not very comfortable.

But we kind of fit.

The back seat was worse.

But from there the front seat looks relatively spacious.

Until Matt actually gets into driving position.

Matt had to drive because he at least knows how to shift in a normal car.

This was weirder.

Especially with your knees in the way.

But he figured it out.

We went on a tour around Berlin.

This is the inside of the “car”

And the bottom of the “car”.

Positive note: no one died or was injured during this tour. Matt did have to ocassionally hit the gas in order to prevent the “car” from going into a stall. He also remembers nothing of the actual tour as driving a “car” in an unknown city with knees in the steering column is likely not a good idea.

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Amman Archaeological Museum

Posted on November 21, 2015 8:19 am by Kerri Comment

The oldest human statues in the world were found in Amman. They are 7500 years old. The shapes were made out of reed and then covered in plaster. They think the lack of detail between the head and the feet might be because the statue used to wear clothes.

This one is weird because it has two heads.

The black on the eyes is bitumen from the Dead Sea. Which is a long walk from Amman.

They also covered the skulls of the dead with plaster and put shells in their eyes.

These coffins came much later and were probably inspired by the Egyptian sarcophagus. They had a representation of the face on top, you can barely see the nose sticking out now.

This is the dead sea scroll that was made out of bronze. It is basically an ancient treasure map.

It didn’t last very well. It corroded and couldn’t be unrolled, and most of the letters are hard to read.

But the papyrus isn’t much better. This is some document about the rules of the community.

And the parchment has bigger intact chunks but also more chunks missing. This is a pesser, which is kind of a written version of a sermon.

You should definitely carve things into stone if you want them to be readable 2000 years later.

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Cedar Pride Wreck

Posted on November 20, 2015 8:37 am by Kerri 1 Comment

Our second dive was a wreck dive.

It was sunk 30 years ago after sitting in port for years.

Since it is only 30 years old there is only a little bit of stuff growing on it.

Parts of it were kind of cool though.

Not that many fish around but several small corals and grasses.

The wreck wasn’t too deep and bottomed out at 25 meters.

Even so there wasn’t much colour.

The ship was laying on its port side so this is looking back up towards the surface.

Here’s a good example of all the small corals starting to grow on the side of the ship.

This prop isn’t turning anymore. The urchins around it are happy about that.

The ship was interesting to see.

It looks a bit spooky looking down the stairs into the ship.

There were a couple fish around we haven’t really seen many before.

This guy looks like a triangular box, even though we didn’t get a good angle on it.

There were many lionfish around, including inside the ship hanging out.

Here’s another really long fish that we never manage to get a picture of from another angle.

The pufferfish wasn’t happy with our dive master.

They do look pretty funny puffed up.

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Red Sea Scuba

Posted on November 20, 2015 7:37 am by Kerri 2 Comments

We made it to the Red Sea and since we were there we couldn’t skip the chance to dive.

There were many of these mounds around but we forgot to ask what they might be.

There are power cables that run from Egypt to Jordan because Jordan buys power.

It is quite the setup underneath the water.

Even though we didn’t get that far into the sea and were mainly still in the gulf it was quite pretty.

There were quite a few similar looking fish and corals.

There were a few more sponges then we’d seen before.

The orange fish are back though.

This guy wasn’t blending in all too well.

If he moved back a bit into the rocks it may have been a better hiding spot.

This is a remora and our divemaster for this dive.

We had never seen them before swimming free.

It kept trying to attach to the tank and then swam all around our dive master looking for a spot to attach. It never did, but followed us for over 10 minutes.

Kerri pointed out a turtle heading right towards up.

It may have seen its reflection in the lens which is why it swam directly at me. I tried not to move too much to disturb it.

In retrospect I have no idea why I didn’t hold down the shutter because it was super cool how close it got. I just froze because I was trying to keep out of its way as it almost swam right into me.

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Wadi Rum

Posted on November 19, 2015 8:41 am by Kerri Comment

We went for a drive through the Wadi Rum desert in the back of a pickup truck.

The desert has a lot of cool rocks.

It also has sand, but not enough to run down without worrying about hurting yourself.

Some of the rocks have art on them.

There were lions and camels and oryx and ostriches.

My favourite ostrich is in the second row on the left because you can see his feather duster tail.

There is also a man on horseback hunting with a spear, but that looks newer.

The rocks had really weird textures.

Overall they looked very lumpy.

There had just been a lot of rain, so there were tiny little sprouts starting to grow out of the sand.

After the ride we spent the night in these tents. We went for a walk in the desert after the sun set and watched the shooting stars. Then we had to go huddle by the fire because we got cold.

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