J.S. Reporting from Wonderland...

Okay, I’m not a mental case. The whole geography of this island has to be changing literally overnight. We set up camp on the beach and woke up in a snow-peaked mountain range. Ashton Kutcher, sweetie, unless you’re here, and you’re planning on jumping out with cameras, then I’m officially freaked out. I don’t want to wake up on the edge of a mile-high cliff tomorrow.

Memories on the Line.

I caught myself staring at the makeshift clothesline that the team has set up, thinking about my sister, Trish. Again. There was a t-shirt with a monkey face on it hanging on the line, and I was reminded of our adventure camping a few summers ago when she hung up her Paul Frank t-shirt (that I had gotten for her birthday) and forgot about it. An hour into the drive home, we had to turn around and go back for it, despite my objections that I'd buy her another.

I found some footsteps heading down a path. I’m going to follow them before the landscape pulls the ole’ switcheroo on me. Again.

Unfamiliar Places I've Already Visited?

There is a giant boulder on the beach that wasn’t there yesterday! I swear! I’m not crazy. I'm not sleep deprived, and I didn’t eat any of the funky mushrooms growing around the island. I don't care what anybody says, I'm thoroughly creeped out. “Onward!” the team says. Wish I knew which direction that is.

What Kind of Place is This?

This is one WEIRD island. Something about it just feels “off” to me. And as a side note, our navigation beacons and map software doesn't work here, or else I'd have you locating us from an online map program.

I went exploring today and lost my way back to camp. It's strange, I used a set of markers that the IEV explorers left on a few trees, but they were off. I ended up on another side of the island, by some waterfalls. How does that happen? How does a trail of breadcrumbs lie to you? Ugh, maybe I'm just working too hard; I've been pulling long days alongside the technicians.

Observation Notebook, Expedition Day 2

When exploring today with a couple of the team members on a survey, and we ran across
evidence that we're not the first ones here... or not alone. An old treehouse made of flotsam and jetsam, and a totem of some kind. Both look like they haven't been used in a while.

Here are a few sketches. I finally found my sketchbook and got the mechanic to help me out to scan it. As I thought, one of those things WAS a scanner... of sorts.

Anyway, here's my attempt at rendering what I saw: