Sand Dune Resoration

Room 10 and Room 3 went down to the sand dunes in front of the Wainui Surf Club to meet some of the members of the Wainui Coast Care group and help them plant up the dune in front of the Surf Club building.  We talked about how plants on sand dunes are important because they hold the sand in place.  We learnt that if we had no sand dunes that out beach would disappear.  The creatures who live in this zone would loose their homes and the buildings on the beach front would be in danger of eventually washing away too.

Here's what Hugo, Israel and Felix wrote about the dunes...

Sand Dunes...

When you are on the sand dunes you are killing plants and making it easy for tsunamis to get in onto the land. If we don’t have sand dunes we will have no beach. Did you know that if the dunes were gone, the beach front houses would be on the beach, literally.

By Hugo.

Sand Dunes          

The thing that I learnt today is that  sand dunes are really important.  If you slide down them  and  do it too much, the plants will fall down and then the houses will fall down into the sea. IF THERE'S NO PLANTs THERE’s NO DUNES!!!!!!!!    

BY Felix

Sand dunes

One thing I learnt about dune plants is salt spray, they need to survive salt spray that is when a wave crashes down on the dunes and makes them salty.

Next is erosion, for an example if there were no dunes the waves would take dirt, sand and houses because the dunes hold the dirt and sand that’s why they are so important.

Did you know a tsunami wiped out 10,000 people in Indonesia once at Phuket.

By Israel