Trip to Environmental Centre at Nudgee Creek

The kids and I went for a day trip to the Nudgee Creek Environmental Centre.  The leaders taught the children how to catch yabbis and sift through the sand to find them and other creatures.  The kids also learned how the aboriginal people used nets to catch whiting in the shallow waters of the estuary.

After our time at the beach, the older kids spent time studying the sea life under microscopes and sketching what they saw.  The younger kids used clay to construct 3D replicas of some of the sea life.  A and E made snails.

Our last activity was walking the boardwalk through the mangroves along the edge of the creek.  We watched Fiddler Crabs in the muddy areas and learned about the root systems of the mangroves.  We also learned that the mangroves excrete the salt from the water on their leaves: we were able to see the salt crystals and taste the salt.