17 Aug 2011

Wetlands, fish ways and turkey attacks!


Hi all Kealie again - Had a great time yesterday, we went out to Byfield and had a look at the Iwasaki Wetlands, Stoney Creek and Water Park Creek where there we did water testing and looked at the different types of wildlife that lived there.

We went and had a look at a fish way at Water Park Creek which there they have a slotted fish way. At Water Park Creek we had morning tea and had a visitor, a goanna which was being attacked by two turkeys. While down at the water we did a water test to see if it was acidic or alkaline. From there we went to Stoney Creek and looked at the rock ramps for the fish ways and also did the water testing there. 



The Iwasaki Wetlands had so much wild life we found a water rat, which Mitch thought at first sight, was a platypus. There were different types of birds and fish. We found some little prawns/shrimps while looking through the water with nets. We did a water test here as well and found that it was only slightly over acidic so it was nearly neutral.

Well I’m going. Mitch is out in the boat today so hopefully you will get a good report from his time out in the boat looking for dolphins, bye for now Kealie.

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