{"id":2567,"date":"2012-07-09T11:52:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T23:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2012-07-09T11:52:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T23:52:47","slug":"student-perspective-viewing-undersea-creatures-never-seen-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/student-perspective-viewing-undersea-creatures-never-seen-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Perspective: Viewing undersea creatures never seen before"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hannah Cohan, 2012 North Queensland Sustainability<\/a> student blogger, writes:<\/em><\/p>\n

Day 3 in Australia! Right now I’m on Magnetic Island<\/a>, with thirteen minutes left to go on my internet…aaaaand there’s a spider on the mouse pad. This is going to be more difficult than I thought…<\/p>\n

\/mute thud\/<\/p>\n

Now that that’s out of the way, on to business! ***DISCLAIMER: I didn’t actually kill the spider. I swept it off of the desk. I really just enjoy the word \u2018thud\u2019. ANYWAY…***<\/p>\n

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One of the turtles at Reef HQ Aquarium<\/p><\/div>\n

It is unbelievably gorgeous out here. Our first day, we went to the Reef HQ Aquarium<\/a>. It was a lot smaller than aquariums in the U.S, but had a bunch of creatures I’d never seen before. My favorite was the upside-down jellyfish.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, we went to Horseshoe and hiked to Balding Bay. The hike was slightly exhausting, but worth it. Balding Bay is absolutely, breathtakingly beautiful. And also a Nude Beach…which may or may not explain the small amount of people there (only two “nudies” that were far away from our group…awkward). I met some nice French people (shocking, I know).<\/p>\n

The water was a ridiculously clear blue-green. The sand was a lot coarser than you might find, say, in Florida. I found a shell with a hole in it!<\/p>\n

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The echidna is the “little guy” Hannah saw<\/p><\/div>\n

We took lots of pictures while we were there…including a little guy that we found that is the only other member in its family other than the platypus! Look it up at home! (Mostly because I can’t remember the name)<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, we depart for our farmstays in Yungaberra<\/a>. I’ll be with two other girls on a gigantic cattle farm, with 30 horses and 7 working dogs. Should be interesting…<\/p>\n

Three minutes left…I have a ton of work to do; I’ll talk atch y’all later, whoever’s reading this!<\/p>\n

G’day, Hannah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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