Moanamana: Seatoun

We are continuing to collect data from our local rock pools. In a recent trip we went exploring around the Seatoun Headland.  It is a rich and varied environment and we found many species we hadn't seen before. 

Who has seen a Brittle Star? Sea Cucumber? Baby Paua, zooming across the rocks? We have!

This is the Marine Metre Squared Project in action.  We use the quadrant to set a boundary and then count and record everything within it. We need to identify the species as well. How many different kinds of limpet are there? Quite a few! 

A small group of us ran there to be in time for low tide. After data collection and discovering what we could we then had to run back to school. We arrived back 3 minutes after 3:00! Everybody slept well that night. 
 

Curious Marine Scientists in action.

And it was a perfect day!

Marlon made this movie about our visit to the Worser Bay rock pool