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Friday 14 July 2017

Day 4,Activity 1/2/3, Winter Learning journey

Day #4: Swimming with the Sharks


By the end of Day #3, you have seen a lot of the north island of New Zealand.  Hopefully you have enjoyed it and you’re excited for the next phase of your journey – the ferry trip across the
Cook Strait from the bottom of the north island to the top of the south island. You will spend the next two days exploring the south island before you head back up to Auckland, via Wellington (the capital city of New Zealand).

Activity 1: When you arrive in the south island, Curious Kiwi rents a shuttle van and drives your group from Picton (the town where the ferry dropped you off) to a beautiful beach on the opposite side of the island. The beach area is called Golden Bay and, at one end of the bay, is a stunning area called Farewell Spit.

Farewell Spit has been in the news recently as a number of whales accidentally swam into the spit and became stuck on the beach. They were unable to swim back to the ocean because the water was too shallow. Many local people tried to save the ‘beached’ whales. Please follow this Farewell Spit link to learn more about what happened. On your blog, describe what the local people did to try and save the beached whales.

At the farewell spit alot of whale died because the water was to shallow 300 whale'sdied because of the water was low tie 
It's shocking to hear how many whale's died the people who lived there helped they wet there shirts and lay it on the whale and they even had turns to look after the whale at night and it was hard but the next morning they will  go 
Activity 2: After a morning of learning about beached whales in Golden Bay, you and your group are driven to a nearby town, Nelson, to watch a special movie calledWhale rider.’ It is a famous movie about a young girl who was born and raised in New Zealand. Watch the following movie trailers for Whale Rider: Whale Rider trailer #1 and Whale Rider Trailer #2 and then write a summary of the movie on your blog. What is it about? Be sure to also give the movie a rating out of 5 based on the trailer [1 = bad movie, 2 = okay movie, 3 = pretty good, 4 = good movie, 5 = excellent movie].
When ‘Whale Rider’ finishes, you and your tour group enjoy a delicious meal in downtown Nelson before heading back to your hotel. You need to go to bed early because you have to get up at 4:30 a.m. the next morning to travel back to Farewell Spit to see a group (pod) of Hector’s Dolphins. It is going to be an early morning!

I think that we should banned from fishing because lot's of hector dolphin are ded and we are lucky because we are the only coutry who has hector dolphine's in New Zealand













1 comment:

  1. Kia ora Akesa and welcome to the Winter Learning Journey programme. We are so excited to see that you have joined us this year!! We hope that you enjoyed your journey around New Zealand and learned a lot along the way about the beautiful places, amazing people and interesting things that you can see and do here in NZ.

    Both Jacinta and I will read your posts and we will give comments as we go.

    Let the journey begin!

    Cheers,
    Rachel

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