We went to The Guadalupe dunes to take pictures of the native plants and are doing this exhibit because we want to show what we have to conserve and help it not to go extinct. We need to keep our Dunes because they are special in many ways.

On a Friday from the school we went to the Dunes to take the pictures. We got a woman called Kathy Schartz, she helped us by giving us facts, names of the plants. We started walking and listening to what she had to say about the plants. In the beginning we saw a lot of poison oak and white flowers. There was spanish moss, trees, dead leaves and branches thrown on the ground at the side of the walkway with other plants. We walked further and there we saw a raccoon that was walking toward us but then turned to the right and went into the plants. We kept walking and seeing more plants, we were talking about a plant when the raccoon stuck his head out, we took a picture. Later in front we saw paw prints and other animal tracks. There we saw a group of plants that were together, there were trees, small plants, flowers, and the lake.

There was the lake and it had a bunch of plants that were living on it. Further ahead we saw a lake and two little whirlpools that were caused by a tube that took water from one part of a lake and put it on the other part. We entered the bridge and took pictures of the view and some ducks. We saw groups of plants that were far away, different plants, and we saw a lot of moss.

When we got to the end of the bridge there were a whole lot of different plants and a whole different environment and habitat. We saw and gathered pictures from that place and the plants that were in that place weren't in any other place. From that place we got shots of a lizard basking in the sun and we got different plants. We got a shot of a wild berry plant and more. We were walking when all of a sudden the habitat changed to be more of a light green than a dark green with different varieties of plants. We were walking and it started to rain, there were also a lot of mosquitos and flies that stuck to our clothes and us. There were more groups of plants where we were than where we passed. The wood was going down on the water when we passed. We were going to keep walking but there was a sign of water hazards because of the rain it was flooded. One kid went there thinking it was going to be shallow but it wasn't and he sank wetting his pants to his waist,then came out the other way so the same wouldn't happen. We saw many hills filled with plants and different varieties.

We got to the beach and ate lunch after walking, then we walked seeing ice plants and others. We got to hills of sand and they were steep, so we were sliding down and it was lots of fun. One after another there were hills of sand, there were like 7 and one of them was really steep. After walking on the sand we came to Coriopsis Hill and there on the side we saw a silver colored snake. On Coriopsis Hill we saw a variety of flowers like the fiddleneck. Further more we walked back down to the beginning and took a different path but on the same hill only that in the bottom where we saw more different plants. We did not go far because we had to come back ,but further up front the habitat changed again because when we stopped, the flowers ended and bush- like plants began.

We came back through the same path and we went back on June third to take more pictures while someone in the computer lab received pictures that were sent from the Dunes from a cellular phone to the computers at school. We are calling this a "Virtual Field Trip" because students on a field trip came share with other students back at school, working on the same project. It's somebody elses job to continue this story for next year!