When we arrived at camp we sat and had some morning tea, we then went into the cabins and chose our beds. We unpacked and made our beds, It was just a day to get settled into the camp. We also tie dyed pillow cases.I made mine Black and Green because they are my two favourite colours.
The second day we did a bit more. We had our team challenges. There was six teams of four, in my team was me, Toby, Regan and William.There were so many challenges for everyone to do, I did the Ping ping, M&M, Scavenger hunt and sandcastle competition. In the ping pong one one person bounced a ping pong ball across a table and another team member had to stand at the other end of the table and catch the ping pong ball in a cup, they had to get three in the cup, the ball was only allowed to bounce once. For the M&M one I had to stuck an M&M with a straw and carry it to the other end of the table and drop it in a cup. I was terrible at that and didn’t get any in the cup at all. The scavenger hunt and sandcastle competition were ones that the whole team had to do together. The scavenger hunt was not easy because we did not have a hairclip or a brown hair tie but Toby stole Anna’s hairclip before we left. We also didn’t have a ribbon or an ipod until near the end. I really liked doing the sandcastle competition because it was really creative and we all had lots of fun. Our sandcastle ended up being one really big sandcastle with a moat and a fence made up of broken sticks and a smaller but still quite big with a bridge going from the top of the big one to the top of the smaller one.
Kayaking was also really fun to. We did it on the Wednesday as well. I was one of the first people to go oute were kayaking, while we were kayaking a current stated pushing us and some people started to get really scared. I ended up going to the side and swapping my kayak then going crab hunting. Later everyone came over in their kayaks and we all started kayaking on the other side of the bridge. I went back out and stupidly only had half my wetsuit done up and my hoodie on, because while i was on my knees Bryce crashed into me and I fell forward and all fell in. I then went up to the land, then went back into the water on my feet and ended up having a mud fight.
That night it was our group's turn to do Master Chef. We made chocolate brownie. The three dads that were there Steve, Grant and Dave were the judges and dressed up differently each night, on the Tuesday the wore wet suits, helmets and ties, and on the Wednesday the wore dresses, bras and wigs. We had to take our brownie out of the oven 15 minutes early because when we made the mixture it was really thick. We ended up coming third overall.
On Thursday- the third day we were there, Evan came over for Adventure Masters. Escape and invasion was something we did with him, it was by far the best thing we did at camp. The parents all got given bb guns and the kids all got safety goggles. The kids all had run and hide in the bush. We had to try to stay as still as we could and as quiet as we could. I hid with Josie the first we were hiding. Steve shot Josie the Grant just stood there and didn’t know whether he should shoot me or not, he ended up shooting me after josie told him he had to so that we could go to jail together. If you got shot you had to walk to the jail with your hands on your head and hope someone would come to let us out. My foot started to hurt from running around lots and i scratched my leg on a bush. I got shot four times but I only felt it the first time when Grant shot me. I loved doing the confidence course as well, it was all in a forest and took us an hour and a half to complete the entire course, it was big enough and high enough that we needed to use harnesses. Abseiling was awesome, I got to go first, which is what I wanted. The abseiling wall was just a cliff with a fence at the top to stop people from running out and some ropes to hook onto our carabinas. We also did some more team challenges with Evan. We did two lifting ones and two team thinking and balancing ones.
The flying fox was something we did a lot. It is about 200m long. It went down a hill then went along. It didn’t have as much backswing as the one at Berwick did, but if you don’t get off at the end then you would still go back, not very far, only a little bit up the hill.It was just something we did in our spare time.
