Fri March 13- This weekend was the first of two weekends which I’ll be going on trips with my Australian Marine Ecosystems class. We went to the Moreton Bay Research Center on North Stradbroke Island. The day started early, we met at the main UQ bus stop at 7am to catch a ferry. There were 58 students from the class on this one particular trip. Anyway, we took about an hr and a half bus ride to get to the ferry (mainly because of traffic). When we got to the ferry we were surprised. We had figured we’d be unloading our bags and carrying them onto the ferry which would transport us to the island and we’d be picked up there. No such thing happened. This was one of the ferries where you drive right onto
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