Thursday 04 August 2005 8:52:25 pm

Year 4 Christmas Island

Hi,
Thanks for all your great questions, I hope that I manage to answer all of them. We found 2 echidnas and Big Mama was the biggest at over 4kg. We saw wallabies, kangaroos and possums every day. I have been having a great time and I have learnt heaps of new things that I will tell you about when I get back. It has been cold here but not cold enough to freeze peas. Phil says he thinks it was cold enough to freeze peas but he was only joking. We haven't found a Rosenberg goanna as they are all in burrows at this time of year because it is too cold for them. There is no rainforest here like on CI but there is a little remnant of temperate rainforest. You will have to ask Mrs Ford to tell more about that. Echidnas can get as old as 50 years and they have as many spines as we have hairs on our head. Their spines are quite spikey but they don't hurt you when you pick them up if you do it properly. We don't feed the kangaroos but they have been eating our scraps. There are 226 species of fish here on KI.
See you next week,
Kerri