Beach Cleanup

 

Beach Cookout Term 1

On Friday the 26 of March, Room 8 went to Karoro beach for the beach cookout. First we had to prep.

On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week we had about 10-20 minutes each time to get into our

groups and organize our meal and who was bringing what. My group was Flynn, Jordyn, Benny and I.

Our parent helpers were Benny’s Mum and Jordyn’s Mum and they were a huge help. We had a budget

of $20 which I’m pretty sure we stuck to pretty well. Our meal was venison steak that Jordyn’s dad had

shot, bacon, burger buns and our dessert was S’mores with sour patch kids. 

When we got to the beach we found a spot for our fire within the boundary and a spot that was safe.

We then got tinder, kindling and firewood and prepared it all.

We cleared the area so nothing would catch on fire. We lit our fire with three matches.

Once our fire had burnt down enough we put oil in a pan and put the bacon on it. The bacon tasted so

good once it was cooked! We did three batches of bacon and then cooked the venison which we

added pepper and salt in it. The venison was amazing! We put it in a burger with the bacon and

lettuce and all together it tasted delicious! 

We then had dessert which was S’mores with sour patch kids.

The marshmallows were massive which was great!

Once we had dessert we cleaned up and put out our fire making sure there

was no smoke coming from it. Overall the day was super fun and a big thanks to Benny’s

Mum and Jordyn’s Mum for helping because they were a huge help!

Protecting Maui Dolphins Is Important

 Protecting Maui Dolphins Is Important

Should we protect Maui Dolphins or should we leave them to become extinct? I am adamant that protecting Maui dolphins is important. My reasons for this are that they are critically endangered and they are part of our ecosystem. Personally, I think it is outrageous that people would not want to look after such beautiful animals!

First of all, Maui dolphins are critically endangered! A reputable website says there are only 55 Maui dolphins left! How terrible is that! They are going to become extinct if we don’t act sufficiently. So how are they dying? Maui dolphins are dying from getting tangled in nets, being hit by boats and propellers, pollution and litter being put in the sea. If we are careful driving boats in an dolphin sighted area and stop littering into our Moana they might stay alive and not become extinct so quickly. 

As well as being critically endangered, dolphins are also an important part of the ecosystem.  They are food for sharks and other sea animals. If all of them die, sharks and other sea animals will have nothing to eat and they may die out too which will be a tragedy and that will happen to more and more sea animals. Protecting dolphins is definitely helping to look after our oceans.  It will make a drastic change to the ecosystem so we need to help them!   

There are ways we can stop them becoming extinct and messing up the ecosystem. This is by helping them survive which means no littering, watching where we drive boats, making sure our nets are not picking up dolphins in them and making sure our nets are not dropping to the bottom of the sea, staying there and making Maui dolphins die a terrible death. You can also tell other people about this so that they can help and they can pass it on and that process can repeat so maybe one day most of the world will be helping the miniscule Maui dolphins.

Therefore, I strongly think we should protect Maui dolphins because they are important in the ecosystem and they are critically endangered. So next time if you see a person littering or if you are on a boat with someone and they are not driving carefully in a Maui dolphin area, tell them to be careful or stop littering because they can help save some Maui dolphins. We need to be immediate in our response so they don’t become extinct! So make sure you help Maui dolphins.

By Indi