Kaafi Family Adventures

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Hi, my name is Camellia Kaafi, you can call me Lia (Lee-yah). I am originally from Salt Lake City, UT, and currently reside in College Station, TX. My husband’s job (gas/oil industry) brought us this way. We lived in Central Pennsylvania before that for 4 years. We frequently traveled before coronavirus and it has slowed down quite a bit. I am majoring in Business Administration. I am taking this course to fulfill my electives. I have always been interested in how the earth is shaped from weather, down to the things humans do to shape their worlds around mother nature. 


This photo above is a picture of one of the hikes we took to visit Arches National Park in Moab, UT. We drive back and forth to Salt Lake City because of coronavirus and it has been nice to see the wonders that the earth provides for us. I decided to write about Sedimentology, which is the study of natural sediments and of the processes by which they are formed. Stratigraphy is the study of rock layers and their formation.

This next photo is of my husband Sione modeling for us at one of the arches at this national park and what a wonder it is to see rocks with these kinds of shapes and sizes. As we took the drive around the mountain seeing the different rock formation, we passed by one rock that was called the balancing rock. It looked like a scoop of ice cream sitting on top of the skinny, narrow pedestal underneath. We stopped by to look at it and see that from the weather that Utah has from year to year, there is so much that could affect these formations in order for us to enjoy and take in as onlookers. 

I see geology in all my travels. I have been to the islands where my ancestors migrated from (Tonga). I also have been to New Zealand, Japan, Fiji, Australia, and many more within the United States. We both love the outdoors, camping, hiking and anything recreational. Obviously in Utah, you miss seeing the mountains and we are getting to know the part of Texas we are in. We are an hour and a half away from Houston, 2 hours from San Antonio and Austin, and 2 ½ hours from Dallas. We are a college town, home of Texas A&M University (Go Aggies!) I work at the airport so when it was football season we always watched all the planes come in from all the colleges they played. The world around us is constantly changing and we can see it affect the land, weather, and everything we touch.

Happy Exploration Earthlings!


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