After 5 flights, 3 airlines, 27 hours of flying, 33 hours of sitting in an airport, 3 taxi rides, and one ferry ride, I made it to Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef.
No joke I had a 24 hour long layover in LAX and I do not recommend that airport for long layovers. We arrived after a extended time waiting for the ferry, we rode the two hours to our new little island home. I have been on many islands and I have seen much marine life but I am already surprised but the abundance and I’ve only been in the water for a half hour. In that half hour I did kick my buddy in the head every time I turned to look for her, but she’s fine don’t worry about her, this blog is about me. I’m kidding of course. I am becoming fast friends with the other students even though I don’t know all there names yet, and I already know we have a stupendous lot. The plants I learned about today were the screwed pine, beach naupuka, and great morinda. This may be a marine biology research trip but I’m still allowed to obsess over the tropical plants. We saw a cool spiderweb and an even cooler spider. We found our first cone shell but with all of the wisdom we have in our jet lagged and sleep deprived brains we still had enough sense to not touch it. Don’t worry no one was injured, stabbed, stung, or poisoned today on heron island.
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