{"id":2784,"date":"2021-05-09T06:41:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T06:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/?post_type=article&p=2784"},"modified":"2021-05-09T06:41:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T06:41:42","slug":"snorkelling-at-little-bay","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/article\/snorkelling-at-little-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Snorkelling at Little Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On the second last day of term one the elective geography classes of Year 9 and 10 went to Little Bay Beach to go snorkelling as part of our study of Oceanography.\u00a0 Due to large waves at Clovelly, the site for snorkelling had to be changed to Little Bay.\u00a0 After making our own various ways to the beach we arrived under a rainy sky, which was disappointing, but the beach itself was beautiful.<\/p>\n

The first order of business was the compulsory swim test.\u00a0 We walked down onto the beach, dropped our bags and our shorts and proceeded to show that we were going to be fine in the ocean.\u00a0 This required us to demonstrate our our swimming ability and tread water water for 5 minutes.\u00a0 The ocean temperature was a beautiful 22 degrees and a joy to swim in.<\/p>\n

The swim test was easy but putting on our wetsuits was the real test.\u00a0 After 15 minutes of prying, pulling, pinching, standing up, lying down, stretching and helping others, we all had finally managed to squeeze into our wetsuits.\u00a0 We waddled over to the grass area and were introduced to our instructors who talked to us about snorkelling safety.\u00a0 While listening to the instructions, the clouds parted and blue began to take over the sky.\u00a0 The weather was becoming perfect, the ocean sparkled and the the beach sand glimmered.\u00a0 This was going to be a great day.<\/p>\n

Making our way back onto the beach we buddied up, put on our fins and snorkel and excitedly waded in.\u00a0 We saw many different types of fish, as well as sea urchins.\u00a0 One group was even lucky enough to spot a fairy penguin!\u00a0 The rest of the day was full of picnicking, kicking footies, playing frisbee, swimming and enjoying ourselves.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>From the joys of snorkelling and spending the day at the beach with friends, we learnt the ocean provides us with many unique activities and therefore needs to be protected.\u00a0 The excursion was amazing and everyone had a great time.\u00a0 A huge thank you to Mr Chapman for organising the excursion and being the best dressed as always.\u00a0 Thank you to the snorkelling instructors from Abyss Scuba Diving, Ms Jenkins and Mr Pagani for supervising, and Fortian Gavin Xu for beingour lifeguard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the second last day of term one the elective geography classes of Year 9 and 10 went to Little Bay Beach to go snorkelling as part of our study of Oceanography.\u00a0 Due to large waves at Clovelly, the site for snorkelling had to be changed to Little Bay.\u00a0 After making our own various ways […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-2784","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}