At Wetherby Station!!!!!

Wetherby Station - This is what I looked at every single day for breakfast. Beautiful!

We arrived at Wetherby Station in Northern Queensland about 10days ago and the level of excitement in the group was palpable. We flew into Cairns, in Northern Queensland and then traveled to Wetherby Station for our Terrestrial Ecology class with Claire Barker. As we drove up to the base camp in 4 wheel drive cars - 6 of them each with 8 students, I was just in wonder of what was in store for us. I did not have to wait that long. At Wetherby Station, we were greeted by the dusty long drive to the camp, and we all quickly closed our windows as the trucks zoomed up the windy road. The first site we saw at Wetherby was that of a long line of outdoor camping tents located in the field right in front of cow paddies, a red pond, the forests and a range of mountains in the background. The tents were set up in three levels, and it was just beautiful. We were to each have a tent per pair, and when we went inside, it looked like luxury camping, complete with mattresses, sheets, blankets and toiletries. "Its a five star hotel outdoors" I thought, and it was excellent. We met the people we were going to work with on the first day, the family at whose place we are staying, we visited the cattle pens, and saw a lot of cows, and calves in the field. We went on a farm walk to see all the forests, and ecosystems around the farm. Our trip appeared in the local newspaper, and we finished the first day after a sumptuous dinner and sat around a huge campfire, singing songs and cracking jokes. It was really unbelievable that this was the beginning of a class - with such awesome people and plans in store for us.

Lunch at Wetherby, enjoying the Australian pie :-)

At Wetherby Station before first field Trip.