Burnt Holiday: Ecology Field trip Day 2 & 3, Plant Project

Super over due posting. Been busy occupied by a lot of stuff lately and haven't got the time to sit down and post the reminding photos for the burnt holiday series.

So day two of my 'burnmypreciousholidayschoolfieldtrip' project was carried out at a plot of Banksia woodlands just 30 mins drive northwards from Uni. Last Christmas, a fire cleared this area and now WE poor students were there to study about the effects of fire.

We did the same stuff for this site, measure trees, count plants, getting spooked by a brown snake, play with insects and record trees height. blah blah..

for your info, many tree species in Western Australia actually need fire to reproduce. The seeds of the plant are encased in a tough cone and fire triggers the release of the seeds. The post-fire sites also have more flowering plants as you can see from the photo.

Of course! here are the photos of the lovely flowers!

Here a photo of my tutor showing us a seedling of a casuarina tree. You know those big big christmas tree look a like you see along east coast park, that grow those mini durian like pine cones? Here's the baby of those trees...



So cute and tiny! This shows that everything needs to start off small.

After showing many photos of beautiful orchids in Perth, here's the miniature of the lot!



SUPER small!!!! Ah... the wonders of nature...

At the end of the field trip, it's time to return home and relax~!



Treat myself with a nice drive home in a rented Kia Rio...


Meet up with some of my pals for dinner at a japanese restaurant followed by a bubbletea session at Farmosa.




just realised that all of us are wearing red.... wahahaha!!! National day!!!

Hot bubble tea taste better than cold ones!!! Too bad Singapore don't really serve them hot.

Oh yar.... Remember in the previous post I mentioned about the something extra I brought back... here's it!!!!



A TICK!!!! And yes! it's trying to suck my blood!!!! wahahahaa!!!!

Here's up close!


Found 3 of these buggers ( 2 attached onto my skin and 1 on my clothes). My vet friends told me that those should be dog ticks, and come to think about it... there's a dog pound just beside the research site... ARgh.... the perils of a uni student....