my trip to the wetlands

this is the last stop on my trip so i decided to go somewhere close to home. I am at the hunter wetlands and having a great time! There are lots of different kinds of plants, animals and insects living in or around the water. There are so many birds, reptiles and even an eel to see! Wetlands are, (like the name suggests) wet land, or places where water covers the soil either year round or part of the year.
The hunter wetlands have many activities for people to enjoy like canoing, dipneting and walking or bike trails. They also have activities for children in the school holidays to tell them about preserving the wetlands. The wetlands have had the support of over 150 volunteers who help around the site. The Hunter Wetlands Centre Australia is owned by a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting and supporting the conservation of the wetlands.
That is the end of my trip, and now im going home! hopefully i can come back to all of these fantastic places, but today im going back to my bed!

my trip to the tundra

This place is freezing! the ground is permanently frozen because it is so cold! This means that no trees can grow. I am in the arctic tundra which is the worlds youngest biome and was formed 10000 years ago! Almost all tundras are found in the northern hemisphere, because Antarctica and the southern hemisphere are too cold and the ground is always covered in snow and ice.

Even in summer this place is cold! In summer it is usually about 7-10°c and the sun shines almost 24 hours a day. Summer only lasts 6-10 weeks. One of the animals we saw was the arctic fox. It has long fur which is usually white in winter and gray in summer. It has a long bushy tail that it wraps around itself to keep warm while its sleeping. One of the plants that was there was the Tufted Saxifrage, which is a plant that grows in thick mats on the tundra. I have put a picture of one in here. The tundra is much too cold for me! i think im looking forward to going to my last destination....

my trip to a rainforest

The daintree rainforest in Australia is 31degrees today. Some of the animals here are the giant tree frog, which is the largest kind of frog in the world which can be 14cm long. It lives in the Daintree rainforest, wherever there is lots of water and shade. some of the other animals are the goanna, the sugar glider and the cassowarry. The Daintree rainforest is about 140 million years old. It is the oldest rainforest in the world. Rainforests are home to 50% of the world's animal and plant life.

The aboriginal owners of the Daintree rainforest were the Kuku Yalariji tribe. They were thought to have lived in the rainforest for more than 9000 years.

my trip to a river

It is amazing seeing all of the desert and animals in the Nile River, Egypt. I am on a boat floating down the river, next to crocodiles and fish swimming in the water. Some of the animals in the river are hippos, crocodiles, flamingos and much more. There are huge pyramids and miles of sandy desert that we pass. It is an amazing river.

The Nile gets its name from the greek word "nelios" meaning river valley. The Nile river is 6695 km long, and the longest river in the world. It flows through Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Burundi. The Nile god was Hapi. When the river flooded the Egyptians would thank Hapi for bringing fertility to the land.

my trip to the mountains

The veiw is amaizing here on Mount Everest you almost forget that it is about -20degrees where i am. almost....

Usually it would take a long time to learn how to climb up the mountain but we had a very good guide (in picture) and he showed us everything in a few weeks. He has been up the mountain a few times before so he knew the way to the top. It was very hard to climb and even though we went in the warm season because there were freezing snowstorms and huge   icy  cliffs. It took four days to climb Mount everest and it was very hard, climbing all day. We had about an hour at the top before coming back down.

Mount everest is 8 848m high, and is rising a few milimeteres every year. Approximately 4000 people have climbed mount everest, and 142 people have died on mount everest. The first 2 people who climbed Mount Everest were Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on may 29, 1953.

My trip to the polar lands

It’s freezing here in Antarctica!
Today we walked trough the snow to see the penguins. While we were watching them dive into the freezing water suddenly they all started to waddle away from it. As we watched a huge leopard seal jumped out of the water and grabbed a penguin, before sliding back into the black water. Soon the penguins were back to diving into the water too feed, and eventually we had to walk back through the powdery white snow to our camp.
Antarctica is the world’s driest desert. Antarctica is a desert because the air is too cold to hold much water vapour. It has about 75% of the world’s fresh water, but as snow and ice. The arctic ice sheet holds up to 90% of the world’s ice. If all the ice in Antarctica was divided up, each person would get a chunk of ice larger than the great pyramid. In March 2000, the largest iceberg ever seen broke away from the Ross Ice Shelf. The iceberg was called B-15 and 300km long and 40km wide, which is about the size of Jamaica.

my trip to the grasslands

I am in South Africa, and today I went on a tour to see the Grasslands. We got in the car and drove out to a place where all you could see is dry grass and some trees! Suddenly some giraffes came walking towards us! They were sooooo tall! Soon we drove further and we drove past some elephants and some rinos! Soon we stopped for lunch and i realized how hot is was. While we were eating, some lions came to the trees near us and watched us. On the way back we passed a leopard eating something.

The Republic of South Africa takes up an area of 1,221,037 square kilometres - the same as the combined land mass of Germany, Italy and France. The coast line stretches for some 2954 kilometres, with lots of beautiful beaches and wonderful sea views. 20% of the worlds gold is mined in south africa. In the population of South Africa 77% of the population are black, 10% are white, 8% are mixed race, 2.5% are of Indian or Asian descent.

my trip to the desert

Today is my first day at Sahara Desert and it is so hot!! It is the largest hot desert in the world and is 8.6 million km2 The highest temperature ever recorded here is 58°C and receives less than 3 inches of rain a year! there are estimated 2 million people who live in the sahara.

This morning, after I had put on my sunscreen i went out on a camel tour where we climbed over the huge sand dunes on our tall camels. when we stopped for lunch we had some falafel and shourba (soup), then we went home. The Sahara Desert is nice, but it is a bit too hot for me. I will write more when i get to my next destination!

my trip to the coast

Aloha! im having a great time at a beach in Kepuhi Bay, Hawaii. usually the beaches are not safe for swimming because of high surf and rocky shorelines but in summer it can be alot calmer, making it good for snorkeling, diving and bodysurfing. There are no lifegaurds so i havent been swimming too much but the beaches are great for sunbathing and sandcastles! Kepuhi Bay is so relaxing with hardy any traffic (so you can hear the birds and waves) and beautiful veiws. Alot of the people who live there are surfers and most people are very relaxed.

In my stay at Molokai Island i went on a whale watching trip to see the humpback whales. the humpback whales come down from their feeding grounds in cold waters to have kids in the warm waters in Hawaii. The whales were fantastic. Hawaii was really fun, and i hope i can come back sometime!

my trip to the coral reef

The first stop on my trip was to the great barrier reef. The great barrier reef is located in queensland, Australia. It is the largest coral reef system in the world, made up of 2900 individual reefs. As soon as i got off the plane i could hear the birds and the crashing waves. Soon i had put my luggage in my hotel i went straight to the beach, to do some snorkeling. Soon i saw why the great barrier reef was so famous. As i swam through the clear water i saw a turtle, some clown fish and many more colourfull animals. when i was finished swimming i went back to shore and sat in the warm sun on this hot day.

Alot of the people staying at the Great Barrier reef are tourists, who stay there to see the animals and go on reef tours.

It is 30degrees in Cairns today and is the perfect day for swimming at the beach. Soon i will have to leave to go to my next destination, but untill then, im having a great time at the Great Barrier reef!