Second Nature Asia Pacific

Pacific Lutheran College’s Year 12 Geography students enjoyed one of the best K’gari experiences we have ever been on! Some pretty oppressive heat made swims at Eli Creek and Lake Mackenzie all the better! We collected some amazing field data and spent as much time exploring as much of the island as we could 🥰🏝️🐕

Benowa SHS used sites along the northern GC beaches to collect data for their Year 12 LCT field trip. Students had plenty of issues to investigate at these sites, from landscape-scale erosion to w**d infestation to encroachment. Such a great, accessible destination for data collection close to schools ☀️🏝️🧑🏽‍🔬

FNQ is a fantastic destination for a variety of field trips! Miami SHS’s Year 11 Tourism classes enjoyed their 5-day experience exploring many of Cairns’ tourism hotspots. We had an amazing day out on the GBR, a crocodile/ wildlife park, exploring tropical rainforests and gorge walks/ swims! Students had to develop individual 2-minute videos on their experience which were great to watch upon completion 🐊☀️🏝️

Kedron SHS Year 12 Geographers enjoyed their LCT field trip collecting data on Minjerribah! Some amazing weather greeted us at Cylinder Beach. We even had time for some ice cream and a walk along the North Gorge! Thanks for a great day! 🦘☀️🏝️

Southport SHS’s Year 8 Science Ac/Ex classes enjoyed their ‘Plate Tectonics’ field trip to Springbrook Mountain! It is the perfect destination for an excursion supporting this unit! The Gold Coast sits on the edge of one of the largest volcanoes to exist anywhere in the world in the last 100 million years. And it is the best example in the world of an eroded caldera. Students walked a 5km circuit to see basalt and rhyolite layers, and enjoyed some enchanting cool temperate rainforest down to the rim of the caldera and one of the greatest lookouts in the world!

Beechmont offers school groups some very unique experiences in far SEQ. It is one of the last dairies remaining in the area, and the only one this side of the Great Divide that will allow students to milk a cow! Cavendish Road SHS Year 9 students also fed and learned about beef cattle and goats and picked fresh Tahitian limes and enjoyed lime mocktails - all whilst collecting their field-work data 🐄🐐🍈

Good Samaritan Catholic College took their students to K’gari to collect data for their Yr12 Geography LCT field trip! What an amazing 3 days! Perfect weather, more than 10 dingo experiences, swimming in perched lakes, driving on 75 Mile Beach - and couldn’t have done it with a better group of keen geographers 🥰🏝️☀️

Browns Plains SHS Yr11 Tourism classes enjoyed their field trip to Minjerribah! We enjoyed an amazing mix of investigative field work, tourism asset assessments and interviews, as well as experiencing most of the tourism hotspots on Straddie! The weather was perfect and we were able to swim at almost every possible beach! Looking forward to doing it again next year 🏝️🤿

Year 10 students from Mt Maria College collected the data for their EC&M field trip at Palm Beach. We enjoyed so beautiful weather whilst doing our line transects (to build a dune profile) and 1x1m quadrat sampling to look at succession in plant communities in the dunes! Thanks for a great day out! ☀️🏝️👩🏼‍🔬

Mansfield SHS Year 10 Geography students enjoyed their EC&M field trip down to the central GC beaches! The beach was quite badly eroded from some recent large swells, and was a very interesting destination for data collection along the Goldy 🥰

The Year 8 Geography “Place & Liveability” unit makes for a great field trip to educate student’s on how variables such as services, environment and community identity can affect the quality of life at different locations. Kawana Waters State College Year 8 students enjoyed a day out investigating aspects of “liveability” at the new Stockland “Aura” development and comparing this with a more established development at Caloundra 🌲🚛🏛️

St Hilda’s School Year 10 Geography students enjoyed some very windy spring weather on their EC&M field trip! We visited the central GC beaches, starting our field work at our Study Site (Palm Beach). We then worked our way north to The Spit! A fun day with awesome students 🥰