EcoQuest

Hello All!

We spent this week back at our EcoQuest base in Whakatiwai and pretty much did work all week. We have a bunch of things due tomorrow (the paper of which I just finished) and had our first quiz yesterday. I really need to work on my procrastination issues, it would have been nice to be able to chill tonight but I spent it all writing. One day ill learn…maybe.

We did a couple cool things this week like doing a transect shellfish survey and going to the Miranda shorebird regional park. The survey turned out to be a ton of fun with the group I was in. We were in mud flats counting shellfish and somehow it turned out to by hysterical. I got stuck several times and had to fish out my shoe. The shorebird park and center was also really awesome. We went out there at low tide and watched some birds, mostly godwits and wrybills, feed on the mud flats. There were a couple times that the entire flock left the ground in a unified swoop and passed overhead before settling back down. The sound they make with the wind was so awesome and I got a couple really cool videos of them.

I decided this week that I was going to get up and go for a bike ride/work out every morning before classes and such. A couple of us did it two days in a row but skipped today and since we are leaving for a week I guess it wont be happening again for awhile. The first day we went was awesome. It was a beautiful morning and we biked to a grass clearing by the beach to do some ab workouts. When we arrived, there was a guy sitting on a picnic table playing a recorder. So basically we were stretching and doing ab workouts with a beach front view, listening to the waves, birds and a random guy playing the recorder. It was perfect.

We are leaving tomorrow for Leigh and Poor Knights for marine biology week. IM SO EXCITED! We are basically snorkeling all week, I cant wait! I will have ungodly amounts of pictures when I get back, I am hoping my camera will hold them all. :)

Fun Fact
Parking is free, everywhere.