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Homepage Office News About St Declans N.S. Sports News Who was St Declan? History of St Declans N.S. Class Work Special Events School Archives	Habitat study and Surfing – June 7^th ‘07 We were extremely fortunate to have such a warm and sunny day as the experts at Oceanic Manoeuvres, Tramore took us firstly on a guided walk down the beach followed in the afternoon with some surfing lessons. Grace, our morning guide was great and enthusiastically shared her knowledge of the various habitats of the Tramore shore line and the sand dunes. After lunch the boys pulled on their wetsuits and headed for the ocean and put their balancing ability to the test. Everyone enjoyed what was indeed one of the best days of the year. Please wait for all the pictures to load…… Our class and the other 5^th class went to Oceanic Manoeuvres. When we got there, Paul who is the manager brought us to the back deck area. Then we were told that our class would be going on the beach discovery walk first. A woman called Grace brought us on it. She knew a lot of information about the different habitats in the beach and the sand dunes. The walk was really long but we saw a few different animals on it like the spiny spider-crab, sand hoppers, skylarks and some beetles. After our two hour walk we got back to Oceanic Manoeuvres and it was our turn to go surfing. We all were given wetsuits and boots. They were very hard to put on. When everybody had their wetsuits on we were told the safety procedures and shown how to surf. It looked fairly easy but looks can be deceiving. Then we were given our surfboards and we went to the beach. It was really hard to stand up on the board and I only managed to stand up twice. Some of my friends did really well. Then we went back to Oceanic Manoeuvres and waited for the bus to collect us. We had a great day. Report written by Adam Ryan.