Morton Bay and Point Lookout -North Stradbrouke Island

This was a class research trip I took sometime in late March. Regardless, it was really fun and I really learned stuff. We loaded the bus, drove sometime, and took a huge cargo ferry across to the shore where we landed at the UQ research station. We did some educational stuff such as looking at various habitats along the shore and we went seining, but I won’t bore you with that stuff. While, there we saw a few blue-ringed octopuses, which are deadly, a cone fish, deadly as well, and some sort of stone fish, deadly- you guessed it! So, since we were walking around in these waters we wore protective shoes called booties. Booties.. haha, sounds so Australian. Well nonetheless, I actually had to do some research and my topic involved counting burrows in the ground, and measuring the various depths of different layers of sand. This was probably the worst research I have done, it felt like we were bs-ing all our data. Once all the research was done, we got a chance to take a gorge walk, take some fab photos and admire the beauty. Seriously photos don’t this place any justice. After the gorge walk, we got to lay out on the beach, catch some rays, and play some cricket, which I kicked ass in. At first, I thought it was like baseball, only with a funny bat, so after hitting the awkwardly pitched ball, I threw the bat, and started running for the base, that wasn’t there. So, after some initial confusion, and few times of instinctively throwing the bat, I’ve come around to being a solid player. MVP bayba haha jk. Even though this was a class trip, it is what you make it. You meet incredible people and do things you would have otherwise never done. Such as being out in the middle of the night at low tide, in waters knee depth, contemplating which will be less scary- going deeper into the water, following those ahead or walking back in the pitch black darkness to the shore a quarter mile away. I say go forward! You only live once so embrace it!