Well after a long hiatus and a trip to America and back I finally decided I should post on this blog again. My last time I think was in January so I am a little over due. Since coming back from America, which was a great trip getting to see everyone and be back for three weeks, we are starting to fall back into our old schedules. Once I got use to taking cold showers again it was like I never left, which by the way are not at all enjoyable in the winter season here in Fiji.
There is actually quite a bit coming up for both us both personally and professionally. At the end of August we meet up with our fellow 2010 volunteers that we came into the country with and have our mid-service training or MST, Alyssa is working with the Health Committee on doing a Village Clean Up/Waste Management Education Day, and I am working with the school to do an Environment Club sleepover. All those hopefully will go well and should be fun.
This past week though I got the chance to work with the Ministry of Fisheries and some members from my village to help setup an Marine Protected Area booth for the Savusavu carnival/show (they just called it a show but it is more equivalent to a county fair back home). This consisted of us going out the day before and collecting samples of marine invertebrates and then the fisheries bringing them in to town. They put them in tanks and the next day I came into town and got to hang out, talk to the kids and let them touch some of the creatures we brought. I will put a bunch of pictures below sorry for cheap underwater case I use(that's what causes the ring in the pictures) but I figured why spend $200 when I can spend $25. Overall it was a great chance to promote Marine Protected Areas there benefit but also just to let all the kids get a chance to see all the cool Marine life.
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| Us departing off for our search from Natuvu |
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| One of the divers trying to pull out a moray eel. It actually ended up biting him and they killed it in the end but they ate it so it did not go to waste. |
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| A triton, which is a large sea snail. These are actually very hard to find and they eat Crown-of-Thorns starfish which are responsible for killing coral reef. |
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| Manasa diving down trying to catch a fish |
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| Giant Sea Clam |
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| Baby Sea Turtle |
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| The Fisheries Display at the "Show" |
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| Me describing to the kids what a sea snail is and having them identify it on the poster behind me. |
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Well that is it from here, I hopefully won't take as long to post again.
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