Heron Island Research Station

Thursday night we left for Heron Island (anyone who has actually been there knows, it should be called Egret Island). All the students and I piled in a bus and drove and drove all through the night. The bus wasn't very comfy but eventually we made it to the ferry station. We had to wait a while for the boat to come pick us up, and I got very bored.

For a while I listened to Auntie Sonya play guitar! She and Uncle Josias are writing a new song about a tree!

After I had heard the tree song twenty times I went and read Eat, Pray, Love with Mama Lauren.

I didn't want to be left behind when it was time to get on the boat so I decided to stick with Justin

Its like being in a pouch!

This was us before the boat started moving...you don't want to see a picture of us after

The research station is very cool, they have a touch tank, and a shark deck!

It wasn't all snorkeling and fun though...sometimes we had to do work.

After working all week we got to dress up for Halloween! Which is my new favorite holiday. I dressed up as a GIANT wombat.

Look! A wombat pumpkin! Uncle Josias is very talented at carving pumpkins. 

Uncle Jordan dressed up as Ian!

Uncle Josais was a turtle's worst nightmare, look at all that trash!

Auntie Sonya and Mama Lauren dressed up as Gumnut babies! Lilly Pilly and Ragged Blossom

After dinner and a pinata, Auntie Sonya played guitar for everyone.

My favorite song was Beatrice the Bubble Snail!

 The whole week was great! The Secret Wombat Society was doing a project on crab cheliped bites (cheliped means pinchers! Did you know that? I didn't). We learned a lot about grazers in coral reefs.

I got to make some new friends at Heron, like the tutor Craig!

And my team's tutor Renee!

At the end of the trip Ian and I had a meeting, I was pretty nervous

But Ian told me I was doing great. A+ for sure

Now its time to study study study and write papers papers papers!