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.