I have just finished my last day of conservation work, i've completed 720 hours of voluntary work and it feels like it. Whilst doing this work i've planted around 4,000 trees (50,000 as a team) pulled up thousands of weeds, put in 35 posts along bush tracks, collected hundreds of seeds, built 12 bridges, built 2 nursaries to grow seedlings, set traps to catch pets in protected rainforrest, and cleared over a tonne of litter off beaches and lagoons. This week was clearing weeds and clearing rubbish at belmont lagoon. I've also been in touch with nature this week; i picked up a poisonous spider thinking it wasn't poisonous (luckily i was wearing thick gardening gloves), caught a baby brown snake (also deadly) and got bitten around 7 times by bull ants (inch long ants with a very painfull bite). I feel like i deserve a rest now before i come home so i'm spending a few days in the blue mountains doing some bush walking and other activities and then spending 9 days on the sydney beaches before flying home.
We had a relaxed day today, finishing at 12 and having a bbq with all the staff. We're going for a few beers with them later to celebrate the end of 18 weeks of volunteering. Dispite all the conservation work i've done, i'm not sure if i've offset my carbon footprint, i like to think i have though.
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