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ASHCOLL YR 13 GEOGRAPHY FIELD TRIP TO KAIKOURA

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Usually this is a trip made in late autumn, so we saw the peninsula in a different season........

Mrs Lees and Mrs Hurst led the annual year 13 Geography Field trip to Kaikoura over the period of 12-14th August. Usually this is a trip made in late autumn, so we saw the peninsula in a different season. The class was based at the Canterbury Underwater Club Lodge on Torquay Street, not quite the working environment we used to have at the UC lab on the Esplanade but adequate just the same.

Having studied interacting natural processes in the classroom for 10 weeks (back in term 1 before lockdown) it was time to see if these really did occur in the “field”. We were fortunate enough to have reasonable weather conditions as we walked around the peninsula. The activities included avoiding seals, surveying slopes, avoiding seals, not falling over on wet rocks, avoiding seals, field sketches and observing and analysing the landscape.

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Did I mention avoiding seals. Some students were really not very keen on this smelly, snorting and yawning mammal! 

We made our way back to Ashburton on Friday afternoon having successfully managed to complete collecting data which will be used in an Internal Research topic. The students are, hopefully, now able to make connections between the theory of coastal processes and their operation in the Kaikoura environment.

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