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Hello, my name is Erica. I’m a long-finned eel.

Hello, my name is Erica. I’m a long-finned eel. I’ve had an amazing journey to get to the stream where I live now… Would you believe that I swam to New Zealand all the way from Tonga?!. North America. I hatched from a tiny egg off the coast of Tonga 30 years ago. Asia. The Equator.

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Hello, my name is Erica. I’m a long-finned eel.

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  1. Hello, my name is Erica. I’m a long-finned eel. I’ve had an amazing journey to get to the stream where I live now… Would you believe that I swam to New Zealand all the way from Tonga?!

  2. North America I hatched from a tiny egg off the coast of Tonga 30 years ago Asia The Equator Samoa Fiji New Caledonia Tahiti Tonga Cook Islands Australia New Zealand Would you like to see my baby pictures?

  3. Me as a tiny egg! Some of my 20 million brothers and sisters have already hatched

  4. Hatching out of my egg

  5. Here I am 3 days old Don’t I look cute?! When I was this age I was called a larvae

  6. My 1st birthday! Can you see my tiny teeth?

  7. There I am! A photo of me as a larvae – swimming through the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean

  8. I didn’t want to stay floating around in the ocean forever, so decided to swim to New Zealand to find where my mum and dad had come from.

  9. 1½ years old - the day I finally reached the New Zealand coast At this age everyone called me a glass eel I wonder why?

  10. I remember that the water tasted different here – a mixture of saltwater from the sea and freshwater from a river. I had reached an estuary.

  11. I raced up the river with lots of other glass eels as soon as the sun had set.

  12. 2 years old. At this age I was called an elver. My skin has turned darker to help me hide on the streambed.

  13. There were lots of obstacles to cross on my way up the river – like this weir, and lots of predators who tried to eat me – can you spot two in this picture?

  14. I had to get pretty good at climbing over rocks!

  15. And even up walls!

  16. Image References Slide 1: Stream. Sarah Stead, Rodney District Council Slide 2&8: Maps adapted from http://www.beautifulpacific.com/ Slide 3-5: Eel eggs and larvae. Mahurangi Technical Institute Slide 6: Eel larvae. Russ Hopcroft, University of Alaska Fairbanks From http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6160000/newsid_6168800/6168873.stm Slide 7: Coral Reef. Microsoft Clip Art Slide 9: Glass eel – Nelson Boustead, NIWA Slide 10: Estuary. Doc Searls, Wikipedia Slide 11-12: Glass eels. Tim Watts. From http://www.glooskapandthefrog.org/eel%20challenge.htm Slide 13: Warkworth Weir. D O’Neil, Wikipedia. Slide 14-15: Glass eels. Tim Watts. From http://www.glooskapandthefrog.org/eel%20challenge.htm

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