On a very cold and sunny dry day, on the 14th December, Years 10, 11, and 12 visited the Ebro Delta. It is one of the world’s most important wetlands and is on the Western Mediterranean stretching for 320 square km and is second only to the Donana National Park.

The students enjoyed a boat trip down the Ebro River to the Mediterranean witnessing the wildlife habitat of the river, and the many typical birds that feature there. They went on to see the salt flatlands, flamingo breeding sanctuary, observing certain details of the river that they have studied in Geography lessons, for example, deposition Spits and Tombola’s at the Punta de la Banya, and the irrigation of agricultural land.

The Delta landscape is quite unique in that it is completely flat, with rice fields stretching into the horizon. It was a lesson in itself realising that some 50,000 people coexist with the wildlife, at the same time as developing large-scale agricultural land.

Photos following of the students on the trip.