Australia: Day 62 - Ecology in Anglesea

Today I was up bright and early for my final Education in Natural Landscapes fieldtrip - the plan was to travel to Anglesea (the first town on the Great Ocean Road) and learn from ecologists about the environment. Overall I think I probably should have skipped this trip simply because it covered subjects I already knew and we didn't have much time to explore anything else - but oh well at least it got me out in the sunshine for a while. We started off with an ecologist monitoring the estuary for health. We filled out some observation forms and also took measurements for salinity and dissolved oxygen. We finished the morning by siening up some baby fish and discussing the overall health of the estuary. It was a nice presentation. After lunch we headed up to Lookout Reserve and helped with some vegetative management by cutting down trees infringing on the grassland. It was a beautiful day but really windy! After the grassland work we went for a little van tour of some other vegetation sites before heading back to Melbourne. After dinner I made myself do homework so I could attempt to go for a bikeride tomorrow. Hopefully it's not too windy!