Today’s kick start activity was to think of somewhere holiday you would like to go on a summer holiday and write a list of things you need to take where you wanted to go why are you wanted to go there and put all the information onto Google draw.
I decided to pick a holiday to Australia to swim with green sea turtles this is my Google draw. I have also added some sea turtle facts at the bottom as green sea turtles are endangered reptiles.
Here is Fun fact about green sea turtles before you read my Google draw.
FACT: Did you know Green Sea Turtles are special among sea turtles because they are herbivores, eating mostly seagrasses and algae.
Green Sea Turtles are an endangered reptile with around 85,000 to 90,000 in the world. They weighing around 65-130kg and are 1-1.2m long. They get their name because of the unusual green layer of fat under their shell. Scientist believe this is due to their diet of plants only.
They can travel up to recorded distance of 2,600 km for mating and nesting. They can be found nesting along the more than 80 countries around the world and lay up to 150 eggs at a time. Adult green turtles breed by the beaches where they were born. After about two months, the babies will use a special “egg tooth” to break their shells and hatch from their eggs. But when they do, they must immediately make it across the sand to the water, avoiding predators .
Green Sea turtles spend most of their lives underwater, where they can rest for up to five hours at a time before coming up to breathe however when feeding or swimming they pop up to the surface every three to five minutes for a few seconds then dive back down into the water. They swim around normally at 3 km but if they become threatened they can reach up to 35km/h.
Green Sea turtles are Suffering Extinction due to hunting, over harvesting of their eggs, loss of nesting beaches, Predators eating the eggs or Turtles after they’ve hatched and also fishing is causing danger with thousands of sea turtles accidentally caught in net every year.
Bula Lucas,
I love a good summer holiday. I love how you have this thing you want to do and you have planned a whole holiday around it. That is my kind of holiday, ticking things off your bucket list. I do hope you get to swim with turtles one day.
I haven’t swum with Green Turtles before (at least not to my knowledge) but last year I did go to Tahiti where I saw Green Turtles. One of the locals told us that Green Turtles are used for soup for very rich people which absolutely shocked me. What do you think of that considering they are declining in population?
You have included a good mix of items in your bag to take on your holiday. The only other things I would include is 1) a hat and 2) a rash shirt. When you are out on the water all day the sun reflects onto the water and that is when you get the worst sunburns imaginable.
You have done an awesome job reading facts and attempting to put them into your own words. I learnt a lot from your description which is a sign of a very good description. Just to remember to reference any website you gain information from. You can just say at the end of you description References and include any websites you used in a link form or by name below. E.g.
References
https://www.natgeokids.com/nz/discover/animals/sea-life/green-sea-turtle-facts/
Hope this helps Lucas.
What an outstanding blog post. You have taken your time with your description and you have thought hard about your holiday. Good work.
Anna
SLJ