A dingo ate my baby!!

Just kidding. But exciting news about dingoes that I will get to in a second. I didn't post yesterday, but my day was very uneventful, I just lounged around, went to the pool, met new people, and hung with friends. Oh I did go to this orientation thing though and had a "sausage and bread" it was like a hotdog but they use just regular slices of bread instead of buns, apparently this is common.

Today I went to an orientation thing where I got a free Subway sandwich! Fun fact: here the foot longs are $7 not $5. But then again, everything is more expensive here. I also got my student ID card, see photo attached, could've been worse. After that we hopped on the bus, of course, and went to Trinity Beach! Absolutely beautiful, I'll show you some pictures. Some people played volleyball, naturally I took a nap. The water had those jellyfish nets up so you could only swim in a certain area.

But the most exciting news of the day is that I will be taking part in a research project on dingoes! I will be getting hands on fieldwork experience. It is about dingo diet and prey availability. Its over a two month period in which I will be volunteering on a postgraduate research project where we go to different locations and set traps, take DNA samples, record data, take scat samples, learn mark-recapture techniques, etc etc. I don't know all the details yet but I am super pumped and will be going out for the first time on Wednesday!! I'll be sure to let you know how it goes.

Also, I am probably going to volunteer at the Cairns Tropical Zoo! :)

See ya later alligators.

Trinity Beach: 

My New Student ID!