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...least in part. In the Crimson’s first weekend of the season without a regatta away from Massachusetts, Harvard ended up with two top-two finishes in three events. “We were pretty psyched about how we did overall,” junior skipper Clay Johnson said. “We defended our home waters pretty well.” BOSTON DINGHY CLUB CUP While each of Harvard’s three regattas took place in the vicinity, only the Boston Dinghy Club Cup took place on the Charles River. The No. 4 Crimson took advantage...
...races we did lose were all learning experiences,” junior skipper Clay Johnson said. He was joined by crew Emily Simon, as well as co-captain Vincent Porter and crew Ruth Schlitz. Also sailing were sophomores Kyle Kovacs and Elyse Dolbec, who served as skipper and crew, respectively...
...days. Harvard took seventh overall in the 20-team field, earning 701 total points, ahead of eighth-place Yale’s 733, and a ways back from winner Georgetown, who took first with 538 points. The Crimson looked strongest in its dinghy races—junior skipper Clay Johnson and junior crew Emily Simon guided the A division to seventh place overall, while senior skipper Vincent Porter teamed up with senior Ruth Schlitz and freshman Jon Garrity for a first-place finish in the B division. “The conditions were pretty tough, and there were...
...water was everywhere, with a series of five large, interconnected lakes and 14 smaller ones offering a rich larder - mussels, golden perch and cod, as well as marsupials and water birds - for communities camped on their shores. As the lakes receded and were refilled, prevailing winds layered sand and clay on their eastern shores into giant crescent-shaped dunes, or lunettes. And by the time the lakes dried permanently about 16,000 years ago, leaving saltbush to claim their abandoned saline beds, the lunettes were like vaults, stacked with the artefacts and bones of people who had lived near them...
...remnants of a series of ponds, extends far beneath it. "They were in a hurry," he says of the hunters, "and I'd love to catch up with them." He believes the tracks were probably made within a matter of months and preserved when protective layers of silty clay covered the muddy sediment. And it's likely that more tracks remain on several underlying layers. "It's like a layer of pancakes," he says, "and we can only see the jam on the top." Other unusual marks could be from implements; Aboriginal trackers from northern Australia are being called...