Wishes everyone a very Happy Easter :) I think we are all organising an Easter dinner lol. Had the best phone call today to my wonderful boyfriend which is great as I havent spoken to him on the phone since I arrived, so that's made my Easter :) And finally. I really want to thank the Royal Geographical Society for the chance to experience the United States for my gap experience. Without there help I certainly wouldn't be here - so a very BIG thank you :) I ha...

Well, I am on my off days and have decided to make the most of them! Today I took a trip to the Lowell Observatory in town. It is such a trek uphill, I tell you. If my calf muscles werent toned before, they are now lol. It was really interesting to visit simply because this is where Pluto was first discovered and a also a lot of cutting edge research is going on here which is great if you are an astronomer lol. I loved the scenery and the history of the place. To...

Hi! It's me again :) I am back from Saguaro National Park after 8 days learning all about the desert and surviving the heat. It is really really pretty there.. I can't emphasise that enough. It is so rich in vegetation and the diversity of plant and animal life is amazing. You can see why they decided to establish this as a national park in 1933! My role on project for the majority of the time was to work with a very dilute Milestone herbicide and to spray the i...

Hey everyone! Time for another blog entry :) I am on my last 'off' day now before I go on my next project to Saguaro National Park in southern Arizona. I am doing restoration there, but not entirely sure what that means. No one has been on it that I know, so Im thinking it could be fairly new. It looks like it's going to be a scorcher there so plenty of suncream, water and shade me thinks :) This weekend a group of us (15 plus a few extras that went before us) ...

Okay, well I thought I'd just quickly jot down a few things I remember from Lake Mohave regarding wildlife. I saw a kangaroo rat - they are so adorable! They come right up close to you and they are just so cuddly lookin' haha. I also saw a snake. Think I might have already told you guys that but it was pretty cool... bigger than your average grass snake but a lot smaller than your kick ass rattlesnake lol. There are also jumping brown spiders in Arizona. JUMPING....