tokorou beach

On Friday the 29th of March all of Te Kauri and Te Manga were heading out to Whatuwhiwhi. We were going to learn about marine reserves and what that means.

Then the sky opened up and man did it pour. Will we have to stay at school or do we get to go? YES we are going. We all loaded onto the bus and off we went.

When we got there we all sat on the tarpaulin eagerly waiting for our instructions. Five minutes later my group were all in squishy tight wetsuits getting ready to jump into the water. Ohh it looks freezing. When we were on the beach we got our flippers and masks on and slowly waddled into the salt water. Splash we all dive into the crystal clear water I was going down like a elevator getting onto the sea floor catching a glimpse of a 20 pound snapper feeding on pipis. Should have bought my rod. Then I come up for a breath. Wow there is so much to see.


Walt writ the things that we sour 

this was interesting to do

A marine reserve is a place that you can not take anything not even a tiny shell. It’s all protected. This helps to regenerate or build up the sea life from fish to shellfish even seaweed.So no I can’t go back there with my rod and catch the snapper. Hes protected and need to grow and make little snappers. So lets make sure we dont take anything from marine reserves. I want to see lots more sealife.




We all had an awesome day. Now i want to become a marine biologist.