Hey all! So basically right after getting back from sydney we headed out on a 3 day field trip. On the way we stopped at Mossman Gorge which was a national park area... rainforest and water among all these huge rocks. It was beautiful and amazing. When we got to our accomadations (hostel in the rainforest called Crocodylas) we unpacked and stuff and then drove a few miles to Cow Bay Beach. sigh. it was amazing. sun, sand, shells, rainforest, blue ocean. i took a million pictures. walked along the beach. then laid in the sun reading. Just hung out after dinner playing cards and stuff. On the second day I got up for a bird walk in the morning. We didnt see much but it was still fun. Then we went to the Daintree Discovery ... read more

Heylo! So this past week not much occured. just lots of studying and taking of exams, which i survived. lol. this weekend was really really great though. On thursday night a bunch of us watched The Holiday and then later on watched Beauty and the Beast. It was a good night. =) Then friday night we had craft night.. and we each did our own aboriginal style dot painting which was fun. After that watched Rabbit Proof Fence which is a movie about a true story of one of the Stolen Generation. It was good. Sad. Crazy. Yesterday we did another tree planting with TREAT. It had been raining so much all week that most of the pre-dug holes were full of water which was really annoying. I hope the trees live that we planted. I ... read more

Hey all! Sorry it has been a while. We've been busy with classes and field work and stuff and I've been trying to do my paper. Which I finished sunday night and then checked over last night and handed it in. Which was a relief. So, let's see. During the week I think we were just mainly having Forest Management Class and field work. Our field excerise for that class involved picking samples from many different trees, shrubs, vines, and weeds. Then we took different measurements such as flammability, leaf area, specific leaf area, wet mass, dry weight and some other stuff. Thursday we went on a little trip with Jess, the Ecology prof. We went around to different fragments of Mabi 5b forest and talked about stuff that we had learned previously in lessons. This ... read more

So, since I last wrote a lot has happened. The pics of everyone in the program are now up on the sfs web site in case anyone hasn't noticed that and would care to see them. =) Last saturday we took our swim test at Lake Eachem. It started raining basically as soon as we got there but we still swam and it was kinda fun. The water was warm and it looked really gorgeous seeing the rainforest bordering the lake through all of the rain. At night I stayed at the center with a few people and we hung out and made rice crispy treats.. but with coco crispies and rasberry and vanilla marshmellows. It was interesting to say the least. =) Sundays are our free days so me and 5 others got up and ... read more

Hi Everyone! Sorry it took me a little while to write an entry. The internet is very slow as I have told most of you, plus we are just really busy. However, I keep waking up way early so I've decided and I can try and write stuff then, for as long as this early rising lasts. Australia is amazing. The rainforest is so incredibly gorgeous! The minute the plane landed in Cairns I was in love. I think it was also nice to see green again, after leaving our dreary winter with the leafless trees and everything. It has been in the 80s I guess for the past few days. Really hot in the sun but usually OKish in the shade. I have been surprised that it was fairly sunny the first few days. Yesteday ... read more