First Week and It Feels like a Month

So the first week is over and we have already done so much that we have been here for much longer.  We have been on several excursions for classes so far including visiting local Cinder Cone volcanoes called the Seven Sisters and interviewing locals in the town of Karanda (pictured at right).  We have done a bunch of work at the station as well cleaning it up from the past season and especially getting the greenhouses up to par for planting this season.  A group of us spent three hours clearing over 500 potted trees out and weeding the massive amount of weeds that can grow in a year in the Wet Tropics.  As a group we have accomplished a lot and have bonded really well.  Our first night out last night was a blast where we hung out with a bunch of locals at the pub.  It is still astonishing that we have only been here a week because of how much we have packed into the few days we have actually been here.  To update the animal count we have two more snakes to add to the list, both on the list for most venomous in the area.  The Brown Tiger snake and the Small Eyed Black snake both were hanging out around the station.