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.