Thursday 8 December was my favourite day this week! The Blake foundation came to our school to talk about the pollution in our ocean, what causes it and how we can fix it. They also taught us many facts along the way. That’s not even the best part. The best part is that they brought vr sets to show us and make the experience so memorable and realistic.
As soon as the vr set went on my head the only words I could say were wow, this is so cool, im swimming with fish! And so many more. The VR set makes your mindset really believe that you are underwater or flying over beautiful mountains. The very first setting we went to was Goat Island. Goat Island had beautiful clear blue salt water, colourful vivid coral, fresh and tasty seaweed and really pretty marine life. The special thing about Goat Island is that it’s reserved meaning you have no right to go fishing, take shells or any objects found there. Basically meaning that it is forbidden to take anything from Goat Island and if you were caught you would get fined. That’s why Goat Island is very pretty and lively because you can’t take any natural resources.
Although Goat Island was a very healthy environment, the next location is not as healthy. It’s Auckland harbour. Auckland harbour is very popular for fishing or wharf jumping and that’s why it looks so horrendous. The water was all green and murky from all the algae and had so much junk at the bottom like tires, pipes and clothes. There weren’t that many fish or seaweed, meaning that it has been like that for a while. It wasn’t that interesting to look around at either considering it was hard to see from all the algae floating around. I can’t imagine how hard it was to film in this extremely filthy water. The vr had really captured up every single detail if you were to dive into the water in real life.
The Blake foundation is really inspiring, helpful and friendly for our world. The Blake foundation was made after Sir Peter Blake, a passionate and famous sailor. He was very caring for our world and wanted nothing but a better place/life. He was sadly killed by pirates on his journey through the amazon river protecting his crew members. The Blake foundation wanted to make a difference by carrying on Sir Peter Blake’s legacy of caring for our environment. The Blake Foundation has done many amazing things like beach clean ups and the main part of all is to educate people. They make their education sessions very enjoyable which is why they bring in vr sets for us. I really enjoyed this experience and learned a lot. I recommend this experience because I promise you that you’ll never forget it.
