Marcella's Blog

Hello everyone! We are now enjoying the cold in the center part of the north island of NZ. It rained, snowed, hailed, winded, iced, and became sunny all in one day ...we are on top of active volcanoes! it is exciting maybe one will explode and we can see it! we also saw a geothermal station from the hot springs. we are heading to auckland on thursday! and i come home sat. night!!!

I am now in New Zealand, for the last week of our trip! Today we had two lectures on plate tectonics and the human geography of this land. Wellington is a crazy busy place and its fun but really windy. We also visited a sanctuary and saw a lizard thing and a kiwi as well as some other cool birds! Tomorrow we leave to head north for some more tours!

Yesterday was our free day so we went to the lagoon and tried to get a tan but it was very cloudy....so we went to the mall! The malls are great in any country! :) Last night we went out to a farewell dinner at a aborginal restaurant. They served kangroo, emu, croc, barramundi. I had the barramundi fish and it was delish. Today we are flying to New Zealand to complete our last week aborad. We are going to be very busy, even more then here! It is rainy here in Cairns so it is a good day to leave. Some of the group who was not going on left at 5am this morning. Hopefully I will be able to fill you in while in NZ but if not I can show you all pics when I get home!

Today we spent the whole day on the Reef and it was soo amazing! We snorkled in two places and saw tons of fish. Angel and Butterfly were the two most common types! We did not see any sharks or sea snakes so I was happy. On the way out to the reef it took 90 minutes and and bunch of us sat on the bow of the boat and got toally soaked. I think the skipper was trying to throw us over! We got a really cool picture of us underwater also! I even got to wear this awesome wet suit! haha not really but it was fun and kept me warm. It was a bit cloudy but still very very fun!

Howdy! Sorry it has been a long while. We left melbourne and went on to Kangaroobie farm. we got to help herd some cattle and then feed them. we also sat around an campfire. We then drove to the 12 apostles and down the great ocean road! From there we flew off to the top of Aus. To Cairns (pronounced canes). IT is like 85 degrees here so we went to the beach and i got burnt! but its all good becuase it is an australia burn haha. We have been touring the rainforest and we are going to the great barrier reef to go diving on thursday!. Then on saturday we are flying to New Zealand! I dont know much ill have the net but i will do my best! I hope you all are having fun working ...haha and ill be back in like 2 weeks!!