Sasha has done a great job being the journalist for our excursion.  You have written a lovely piece, explaining what happened, Sasha.

Last Monday we saw Tracy from the Cape to Cape Catchment Group again. 🙂 The class met her at Rotary Park to talk and look at the trees, plants and animals along the Margaret River.  We talked about living and non-living things and had a look for some of them around us.

Tracy took us on a walk and told us about some of the trees and plants we saw around us. Then we split into groups of three and picked a tree that was in the forest along the Margaret River. We collected samples from the tree that we picked to investigate. We all learnt a lot about the tree we had picked. My group picked the Snotty Gobble.

While we were at Rotary Park with Tracy we also learnt the following facts:

•    Plastic can take up to 400 years to properly disintegrate.

•    The water in a river is non-living even though rivers are alive!

•    The Blackwood River is bigger than the Margaret River.

•    80% of the plants along Margaret River only live along Margaret River.

•    The Leeuwin Wattle only lives near rivers.

•    Ringtail Possums only eat peppermint leaves.

•    Trees and rocks keep the river banks together.

•    Karri trees are the third tallest trees in the world.

•    You can eat the leaves of the Snotty Gobble Tree.

•    If you rub the leaves of the Karri Hazel, it makes soap.

Tracy will be back next week to teach us more about the River.

Did everyone enjoy the visit to Rotary Park?      😎