I finished my tree weeks travel. The first day, we went to the Blue Moutains, who are near to Sydney (50 km). It took us less that an our to go there. I was with Sarah Temple, a 26 years old Australian women who studies the koalas, and John White, a 30 years old british scientist who study the rare long-noosed potoroo. My job was to help them to count the mamal population of the moutains. We were one of the many groups who walked on the moutain at night, trying to be as sneaky as possible, searching for koalas who had an tracking collar. The information of the collar helped us to know where they were the last six months and what were they doing. I only managed to find two koalas in three days, but i find another thing : a Blue mountain water skink, a specie of endangered lezard. I also couls hear dingos when i was trying to sleep.
The skink was so fast i couldn't take a photo, so i searched one in internet
After the three days in the blue moutains, i went to the Great Coral Reef with two scientist who are trying to preserve it. The travel was one day long, aand finally whe arrived to Townsville (very original name...). The great barrier reef is the biggest living structure of the world : 344 400 km². It can be see from space, unlike the Chinese Wall(it's a legend) : that show how big it is. Unfurtunatly, it's bisapeatring because polypse (animals of the familly of jellyfish who look like worms and form corals) can't tolerate global warming and are being eated by starfish ( you can't believe it when you see them, but they are graeat predators). My job was to see the progresion of white corals (dead coral) and if i saw trash, to clean it. The coral reef is very clean, because of a strict reglementation, so it wasn't very hard.One of these horrible starfishes
A giant clam, the bigest bivalve molusc of the world.
We stayed a week in Townsville and then i went to Kakadu national park, in the Northen territory. It's a reserve which include six landforms and more that 12000 species (10000 are insects). It's one of the first places where non-Aboriginals people arrived to Australia. I stayed there a week too, and i helped the park guards to preserve the wildlife : kangarous, wallabyes, wallaroos (that's an original name too...). I even could see wallabyes from near. Now, I am in Sydney again and i will left tomorow
No swimming !
A wallaby. I had to take the photo from far away to not scare him ( or her?) so the quality is quite bad
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