Day 2 at Boyd Hill Nature Reserve

Hi All, from the Year 6 travellers. Hope you are enjoying our photographs! Today the rest of us had a chance to hold snakes - they do not like sunscreen or perfume or any kind of lotions that people put on their skin - so some of us could not hold them yesterday...but today we made up for it! We went out to catch Cuban Brown Anoles (small lizards) and measure them so that we could work out their averge length - Nick was our best anole catcher! Kodi found a baby gopher turtle and George was very impressed - apparently they are very seldom seen, especially in the daytime. We learnt a lot about non-native species today and the problems they bring to the areas they are now living in. We watched a Star Trek episode that showed how creatures that do not belong in a place can upset the balance of life there. We added lots of words to our vocabulary list - biodiversity; indigenous; endemic; sentinel species...and much more! We had a visit from Mr Chep who took some of his friends to meet us...a green lizard; a tarantula; a box turtle; a pet rabbit and two snakes - the largest a boa that was over 6 feet long!