Rachel on an Island
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Another day, another freezing swim in the Great Barrier Reef in the winter. It’s not actually that bad I just like to overreact about cold. Today the last member of our crew got here, and while we are glad she made it we also have about 40 high schoolers on the island with us. So far we have regretted not taking advantage more of the island back when we had it to ourselves. We did another lab today with invertebrates. We went out during low tide and collect sand samples which we put under a microscope and looked for little critters. It’s pretty interesting seeing what really makes up sand and those ecosystems they help sustain. We saw a loggerhead turtle today in our evening swim. His head was the size of a basketball and he was almost as long as me. We were only in 3 feet of water and he swam right up to be and then under me. We went to the dock to see if there were any sharks but unfortunately the high school invaders had kicked up a lot of sand so the visibility was really bad. Hopefully our morning swim will be better. Speaking of morning swims, this morning was good fun. We swam out to the ship wreck and there were lots of turtles and rays sleeping. I saw a lot of eagle rays today and I even saw one jump out into the air. We learning a little bit more about a tree that has really sticky seeds that trap birds and eventually become a very nutrient dense soil for the trees to live in. There’s your plant if the day, pisonia trees.
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