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Stanmore Bay School, is located on New Zealand’s
North Island, on the Whangaparaoa Penisula, not far from the capital, Auckland.
Hello everybody it’s us here from New Zealand.
We’ve come to tell you about The Sandwatch Project at our school. On Tuesday
21st November when we went on our first trip to Stanmore Bay Beach for Sandwatch
studies. We started walking from the southern end of the beach recording as we
went.
We found a few interesting things on the beach like a massive dead beetle!
While we were walking along the beach we began to ask questions like “Why were
there more shells on one end of the beach than the other?” and “Why was
there more rubbish on one end of the beach than the other?” We also
encountered a pipe sticking out of the water. Could it be a sewer pipe? Let’s
hope not!
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We captured a few pictures of the plants along the beach, for our Sandwatch web
pages.
We finally came to the end of the beach. We went back to school and transferred
all of the information that we collected on to a big map. When we discussed
about what we found out, we saw that there was more rubbish on the end of the
beach that had public access. At the other end where people came down from their
homes there was less rubbish. This is only the beginning but we look forward to
continuing on the Sandwatch site for a long time.
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