Thrombolites

Our school was hosting a group of Japanese students from our sister school, and I have been driving around to show Japanese teachers different places in Perth and around our school for the past weekends.

On Saturday, we headed down to Lake Clifton to see strange living fossils called thrombolites, as they have requested. I haven't seen these things before, but many of our students were saying it is a waste of time, so I wasn't expecting that much. Contrary to the teenager's dry and apathetic view of the natural wonder, it was quite interesting and our visitors were impressed with a scenery as well.

After that, we went to look for kangaroos, and after searching here and there, we finally found a kangaroo hot spot with a help from a family of our students. One of the Japanese teachers also found out that it turned out to be a tick hotspot as well.

先週からオーストラリアに来ている大阪の姉妹校の先生方を連れて、土曜日は、生きた化石と言われている thrombolites というマリモのお化けの様な物を見にLake Cliftonへ行って来ました。

地元の生徒からは、見に行くだけ時間の無駄と前から聞かされていたので、実際に見に行くのは僕も今回が初めてでしたが、これはこれで見る価値はあると思いました。

On Sunday, I finally got some free time to go fishing and fortunately the weather was right as well. It was nice to be on the water again and I was happy to get some fish too.

日曜は、天気も回復し、釣りに行く時間も出来たので、２週間ぶりに釣りに行きました。数匹釣って満足して帰りましたが、その後に同じポイントに行った友達はアタリの一つも無かったそうです。

やっぱり良い潮の流れを外すと、良いポイントでも良い結果はでません。その辺が海の釣りの難しい所でしょうか。