Kualoa Ranch

It's been a while since I posted. Finals and such coming along, I decided to update my last few before I stop. I'm not actually sure if I'll stop or just make a different account after school. This is a pretty interesting way of expressing one's opinions, but it's also time consuming. I'll work on it.

My friend and roommate Kevin allowed us to take a field trip to his ranch her worked on during college. Makes me regret that I didn't put more effort into looking for jobs like this. It was fun. We did fish pond restoration. It wasn't the first time I did some type of restoration, but it was the first time I did it in a fish pond.

Beach clean up wasn't too bad. While I was picking up trash, I decided that in the future, I wanted to put some trash bags or boxes in my car trunk. One for big pieces and another for smaller ones. This way I can help the environment one piece at a time. I kept thinking that the more I picked up, the less will be in the ocean. Essentially: "That's one less piece of trash in the ocean, or in the North Pacific Gyre." It was a good mantra to get started and into the restoration.

After we headed over to the restoration site, we watched some people cut down a shrub/tree thing with 2 inch long thorns. While it was a good idea, the process was a bit dangerous. Kevin had some shrapnel hit him from standing near the workers. Granted he could of moved, but then others would have gotten hit. Then again the plan was hastily put together. We're still thankful though =D.

There were alot of volunteers that came that day. I've also noticed that on any field trip we go on, even ones that doesn't seem like we'll be doing much, we always do some kind of restoration. So that day, I noticed that almost everyone had some kind of flip-flops/sandals on and 5% of the people there (minus the workers) wore shoes (me included). This helped alot due to the thorns, but those who didn't wear shoes just got in the water instead, which was okay too. In the end we ended up digging 2 trenches to allow water through, while filling up sand bags to prevent erosion. These are one of the things in which I'll miss when I leave the Island in about 10 days. I'll miss the greenery and the beauty. But I won't miss the economy, lol.