Shellfish monitoring

On Monday the 25 2013 the kauri team went shellfish monitoring we went on a long bus ride to kawakawa-bay when we got there we had morning tea then they put us in groups then we walked half way around the bay to our flag we were IOL1/3/5/7 (letter I odd numbers on the left on number 1-3-5-7 flags). We put the quadrat on the ground and out lined it then we dug 3 inches down in the square then we got water in the bucket and poured it in the quadrat to sive out all the sand and left the shells in the quadrat. If we found any alive shellfish we counted them but we only measured the cockles at the end we got stuck in mud that was half of meter deep ;(
We walked about 1km back to the park and had lunch and went back to school in the bus when we got to school we played a game for half an hour then we went home it was FUN! ;) ;) ;}

By Milan.c