SoPac:
Week 9: Environmental Lit with Pauline Stevick! We've spent the week with Thoreau, Dickinson, Hopkins, Emerson, and Dillard trying to understand how literature shapes our understanding of the world around us. How are our imaginations informed by our language?
Outside of the classroom we've been busy as well! Snorkeling and diving for paua, crayfish, kina, and other delicious ocean treats has been extracurricular activity of choice this week.
Here's Tor (Gordon) with his very first speared fish!
Also, we've had the privilege of helping with the Hutton's Shearwaters, an endangered seabird endemic to Kaikoura. The Shearwater has been threatened by loss of habitat to farmland and introduced predators. So a predator-fenced colony has been established on the Kaikoura peninsula, and we've been volunteering to help feed the baby chicks. Here are some images.
John (property manager) clearing the entrance of the burrow
Sam (kitchen assistant) with the baby Hutton's Shearwater
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