The Trip to the Groynes

This week on Tuesday my class group went to the groynes,At the groynes we meet the park ranger Andrew.We learned about some native New Zealand trees and there was one called Lemon wood because if you crushed the leafs up they smelt like lemons and fun fact did you know that the leafs of the lemon wood tree help with rashes?.We also went over a swing bridge and looked at other native trees,then we went to the freshwater part and we had to catch some insects from the water one of these insects are Water boatman,I can’t remember the other insects but it was fun because we got to go fishing with a sive on the end of a stick and we put the sive in the water near the grassy parts and you could get heaps of water boatman my group got at least 5 water boatman, the lady that showed us how to catch the bugs was named Tracy.during the walk to the freshwater Andrew was telling us about the crack willow and how they can overtake the freshwater,after we cought the bugs and put the  back in the water we played a game and learnt about what some insects need like if they need sun,soil,water or the food they eat and we got put into groups and there was pond weed,water boatman,damselfly nymph, and then the duck I was in the water boatman group and I had to get water, 2 pond weed.If you got the water that had a skeleton head on it you are dead because that means the water has pollution in it,My team got that and then the damselfly nymph died because they needed water oatman to survive and then the other creatures died.(very cruel am I right?)  on the way back to the bus we went a different way and it was really muddy when we were coming back the bus was really loud,this is the water boatman.here is a photo of the groynes.