I arrived in Townsville, Australia. I have finally completed one of my biggest bucket list goals: to have visited all continents except Antarctica. Also, by then end of this trip I will have lived in four of the seven continents. I arrived to the room that will be my home for the next 4 months and slept. The rest of the week was covered with orientation and social meetings being organized by the university. This semester, I will be taking four classes: The World of Archaeology, Australian Vertebrate Fauna, Evolution and Ecology of Reef Fishes, and the Life History and Evolution of Reef Corals. Fortunately, three of these classes have exciting field trips throughout the semester, where we will be chasing lots of different kind of metazoans. On my first weekend in Townsville I visited Magnetic Island also commonly known as ‘Maggie’ Island; which was named after the negative magnetic effects it gave James Cook’s compass. On this trip, we visited the Billabong Sanctuary where I held a Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) for the first time! They also had a variety of reptiles and birds, such as, Saltwater Crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) , Red-Tailed Cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus banksii) and Wombats (Vombatidae sp.). After that weekend, the first week of school began and I officially became a James Cook University student. Shark Bait hoo ha ha!
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