The programme sees Year 5 pupils from all States-maintained schools exploring and learning about the diversity of our natural environment.
Pupils from Forest and St Mary & St Michael headed to Lihou causeway for an afternoon of rock-pooling and searching for shark egg cases.
‘We had to find some crab eggs and now we are looking for crabs and things like that,’ said Forest pupil Henry Tulie, aged 10.
‘It’s good to get out rock-pooling.’
The pupils all had their own plastic containers to take a closer look at what they found before letting them go.
‘We found lots of baby crabs and shrimp,’ said 10-year-old Finley Bell.
Finley and his St Mary and St Michael classmates said they enjoyed it.
‘It’s cool seeing all the animals,’ said Anthony Munemo, 10.
The BioBlitz is hosted by the Nature Commission as part of a cultural enrichment programme.
‘They have been flipping rocks and looking for starfish and they have found some anemones, which they can’t put in the containers,’ said Nature Commission ecologist Charlotte Burgoine.
‘There are lots of crabs too, when we did this last week we found some massive ones.
‘It’s been really good, and the kids all want to find something to look at in their own containers.’
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