Our second field trip for The Marine Environment was to Port Hacking! It's at Cronulla, so we took the same train to Cronulla that we took to get to Royal National Park, got to the same wharf, but took a different boat.
Check out our sick ride:
It was actually pretty cramped and uncomfortable. And, the field trip was so boring. We looked at sediment samples from 6 places around the port. Here's the front page of my packet that I had to fill out:
I ended up failing this assignment because our lecturer is this really old man who has a combination of a foreign accent and an Australian accent and also mumbles monotonously instead of speaking normally. Oh well...
After 3 hours of sitting on a boat, looking at the different sizes of sand, the field trip finally ended. Ally, Emily, and I went back to Cronulla to find some lunch. To our great surprise, we found this festival going on!
When Emily and I went to RNP the first time, there was almost nobody around. It was crazy to see so many people out and about.
They even had a petting zoo! And, they also had a couple really small rides and a bunch of food stands.
We each got different food. I ordered chicken and chips (fries). Even though the options were "1/2 chicken" and "whole chicken," I really underestimated the size of this chicken and ordered a whole chicken. I never even had a chance at finishing this humongous thing. Who orders an entire chicken for lunch?! Why didn't the cashier lady question whether this skinny Asian boy could finish a whole entire chicken?! Well, I ended up wasting more than half of the chicken (and still feel terrible and embarrassed about it).
After lunch, we headed back to the wharf and took the boat to Bundeena.
Last time, we went to the Bundeena Drive to Marley Beach trail. This time, the plan was to go on the coastal walk.
It took us about half an hour to get to the start of the trail, but it was so worth it!
Here are some funky-looking plants we saw:
It had rained the night before, so the trail was really muddy in a lot of places, and there were massive puddles in some places. But, we padded along.
Eventually, we got to the coast!! IT WAS GORGEOUS.
Me just bein' me~ (Notice my busted lip from face-planting at SkyZone)
Ally was so relaxed laying on the edge, but I was actually freaking out a bit. We were really high up. Oh, and my water bottle fell out of my backpack when I got up and ALMOST~~~ fell off the side, but Ally caught it for me. My hero!!
Ally and Emily really really wanted a jumping picture. This was the best one we could get after 5 tries...
We walked along the coast, bumped into a few nice hikers, and eventually got back to Marley Beach! The only difference was that it was nice and sunny this time. The first one is Big Marley, which is where we stopped the first time.
This time, we still had a lot of energy, so we decided to keep going. Ally walked so fast and was having the time of her life and was clearly in much better shape than Emily and me. We just kind of tried to keep up.
On the way to Little Marley, we found this on the rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A DEAD PUFFERFISH!!! SO COOL!!!!!!
We got to Little Marley, and it was such a nice little beach. Emily said that Marley Beach is her favorite beach EVER because there are no people, and the scenery is so nice, and it's such a peaceful place to go. I laughed at first, but the more I've thought about it, I think I have to agree.
Emily and I climbed up this giant peak. We could see so far!!!! Ally decided to go down instead.
There were some cool fishermen down below, but I could not figure out how they got down there. How unfortunate.
We eventually headed back to Bundeena, and we went to this playground while waiting for the ferry to come pick us up. We sat and chatted for a bit on the playground, and then we went to the beach and sat some more.
When we got back to campus, those two were too cool for me and both went home for dinner, so I ate alone on Anzac Parade at this Malaysian restaurant Petaling Street. The chicken rice was pretty good, but my favorite part about this place is that they are so fast with the food, which was excellent since I was exhausted and starving. :D
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