A Whole Day of Science in the SUN!

I spent Wednesday 3rd November with Mr Lancaster and Mr Swan out and about around Dunsborough. We did some work on sustainability and have discussed making some links between the UK and Australia. Then I was taken to see Science in the Natural environment around here - I saw a granite outcrop with a great view of Geographe Bay, walked through an ash covered bush area to reach some limestone caves, found a blue tongued bobtail and swam on a natural limestone reef at Yallingup. All in all a great day!



Granite outcrop - not even many Australians know about this area!



Mr Swan and Miss Brown



Walking through a controlled burn area. The ash on the ground was quite hot and at the top of the hill apparently a bush fire was burning. If you look closely you can see me getting scared by a tree branch!



Yallingup - we did some swimming to look at the natural reef. The reef creates great surf and makes the beach really popular, although this picture makes it look like i'm all alone in the Indian Ocean!

Limestone caves - nice and cool out of the blazing sun!

Blue tongued bobtail - a native Aussie Species. We found him in the toilets so were
 returning him to the sun to soak up some rays and warm up!

They have Top Gear Australia. Its not as good!

Just watched a Jeremy Clarkson lookalike commentate on the Stig's lap and an Aussie celebrity race around in a Ford Falcon pick up truck. They have the lap times, the interviews and some jokes.

Not as good as the original.

Mr Sweet

A successful skype from Australind to Preston and teaching a lesson in Australia

The chance to link up with the Year 11 assembly through Skype and speaking to both Mr Bloxham and Mr Moise today was amazing. I had hoped to be able to do this and my thanks to Mr Moise and Mr Adams for making this possible. It was really strange to see you all in the Main Hall from the home of my host family and well done to all of you in Year 11 for listening and contributing to a first in my time at Preston School! I was very proud of all of you.

Today was all about visiting classes and Ms Brown was busy her end in Maths, Science and Japanese. I was sitting in on lessons in History and Geography whilst meeting many of the students. They are incredibly similiar to Preston students, same issues, same attitudes and generally really good students with Aussie accents. Got a chance to teach a History lesson which I have wanted to do since we came to Australind and ended the day visiting Mr Peace's relatives who kindly invited us to dinner. A good day.

Mr Sweet    

Australind Senior High School (ASHS)



From L - R Top: Student Area, Plenty of drinking water, Science Lab
Bottom: The Oval (Sports Field), Japanese Peace Mural, Outside Classroom



Photo Album - Sunday 31st October (But there are about 300 more!)

Surfs Up!

 To say we've covered a huge amount of Australia would be a lie! We feel like we've covered a huge area on our tour but when you look at a map we've not even scratched the surface! We went on a cape to cape tour of the tip of the south west of Western Australia with Mr Slavin and his wife. We've seen forest (with trees so tall photographs do not do them justice) ocean (two of them infact - indian and southern) cliff tops (at Yallingup and Previlly Park), towns (at Dunsborough, Margarets River and Augusta) and beaches, (where sharks have been sighted in the past). All of it was brilliant (or as Mr Slavin and Mr Sweet would say - fantastic!) Hope you enjoy the photographs that I've posted they really don't do it justice - Australia is a place you need to see - put it on your travel list now!

Sunday 31st October - Yallingup, Western Australia