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GE101: Nadroumai Village

Year 2001 Field Trip

There was an all-new first-year Geography fieldtrip in the year 2001. For the first time, the 135 students travelled to the western part of Vitilevu Island and stayed for two nights in the village of Nadroumai. The trip was extremely successful, as the photos selected below show.

: The remains of the Yadua seawall

: Students trying to calculate the 'charted vertical clearance' of the Yadua seawall

: Organising the notes

: Resting on the coastal plain at Yadua, in a place where the seawall has been washed away

: Rotuman and Niuean students pondering the question

: Improvising with driftwood

: Samoan students resting

: Francis Areki, our Graduate Assistant, explaining the situation

: Students from Vanuatu

: Melton Tauetia from Tuvalu measuring river width

: Melton and Emm Turagabeci levelling the tape

: Talei Tuinamuana and Senivasa Tukana trying to find the bankfull level of the Nadaka River

: Petero Laivou and Sia Malakai (Tonga) lead their group across the Yoyo River; a few hours later, following heavy rain, this river had risen to waist height

: Ana Colati (Vanuabalavu, Lau) measuring stream gradients, overseen by Francis Areki

: Measuring gradient in a deep stretch

: Where the river evidently flows uphill

: Crossing a flooded river after heavy rain

: Two lucky students got a horse ride back across the flooded river

: Silina Lagilagi on horseback in the late afternoon

: Conway Pene loads students into his pickup truck

: Inise Ratulevu and Jokaveti Nakabea studying rainforest structure

: Jani Rarua and Golden Varea heading for the next site in the rainforest

: Students on their way back from the last morning's fieldwork

: On horseback

: The yaqona (kava) was even served in the bus as we were leaving

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