Kelly Tarltons Trip

Today we went to Kelly Tarltons to help our research. We got put into groups and I got to be in my Dad's group. It made the day, much more fun. Even though we went in groups, when we had to go to the classroom, we went in home classes.

We found out about tons of stuff, but my favourite part of the journey was seeing the Giant Squid. They are the only predators to the Blue Whale. The giant squid that was there was only 12 months old and it was 11 metres long and weighed 250kg.... and it was only a baby, I would hate to see the aldult ones.

At the beginning, there was a vehicle that could go through snow, it was called the Snow Trac. We took lots of photos and videos, but they went as good as normal ones because we took the pictures with our netbooks. There was a walkway thing with fish and sharks swimming everywhere around you. It was really cool, there was another cool bridge, which the walls were spinning so it felt like we were spinning, it was really cool.

The penguins were amazing too. There were only 2 of the species there, the Gentoo and the King. The King Penguins are very similar to the Emperor and the Gentoo are actually pretty similar to the Adelie but not as much similarities as the king and the emperor. When we first saw them, the girls there were just sprayed them, but when we went the second time, the girls were feeding them.

I loved going to Kelly Tarltons, it was so much fun. I would love to go again some day, but I think that today was good enough for our research this term.