{"id":2655,"date":"2011-06-09T16:07:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T04:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2011-06-09T16:07:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T04:07:46","slug":"student-perspective-roos-pavlova-and-the-gbr-bring-australia-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/student-perspective-roos-pavlova-and-the-gbr-bring-australia-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Perspective: Roos, pavlova and the GBR bring Australia to life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alyssa Lai, 2011 North Queensland student blogger, writes:<\/em><\/p>\n

G\u2019day from Port Douglas!<\/p>\n

\"\"It\u2019s good to be back in civilization! We spent three days in Tyrconnell<\/a> after we said a tearful goodbye to Yungaburra and On the Wallaby<\/a>. Tyrconnell is basically in the middle of nowhere\u2014the true Outback. And Outback it was\u2014I actually spotted a kangaroo outside our tents, pictured left, right when I woke up. I was a deer caught in the headlights, though, and I didn\u2019t even have time to react and get my camera out to take a picture before it hopped away.<\/p>\n

During our stay there, we learned a lot about the challenges of living in the Outback, like seclusion, communication, and unpredictable weather conditions. It\u2019s really a beautiful place, though, as the picture at right shows, and we had plenty of time to relax and get fed! We ate five tim\"\"es a day: breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea (or smoko, as they call it here), and dinner. It\u2019s definitely a tradition that I\u2019ll be bringing back home with me to the States! We also got the chance to taste pavlova, which is a traditional Australian Christmas dessert. It\u2019s sort of a pie filled with yummy meringue goodness and berries on top.<\/p>\n

Now, we\u2019re in Port Douglas, which is an absolutely gorgeous city. Yesterday, we went to the Wildlife Habitat<\/a> where we fed kangar\"\"oos and got to hold a koala(that’s me pictured holding one)! Today, we went out on the reef, and it\u2019s completely amazing, as you can tell from my underwater picture. We snorkeled in two locations, collecting some data for our research project. (It\u2019s not ALL fun and games here\u2026) We had to tally up a certain species of fish to determine the health of the reef. Many reefs all around the \"\"world are threatened from climate change, human activity, and natural disasters. Because all life on the planet is connected and dependent on each other, it\u2019s important that we save our reefs before it\u2019s too late!<\/p>\n

Tomorrow is another day at the reef and then we\u2019re off to Cape Tribulation for some fun Daintree Rainforest exploration!<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alyssa Lai, 2011 North Queensland student blogger, writes: G\u2019day from Port Douglas! It\u2019s good to be back in civilization! We spent three days in Tyrconnell after we said a tearful goodbye to Yungaburra and On the Wallaby. Tyrconnell is basically in the middle of nowhere\u2014the true Outback. And Outback it was\u2014I actually spotted a kangaroo outside our tents, pictured left,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,23,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-student-blogs","category-australia-north-queensland","category-student-perspective"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}