CAMP HIGHLIGHT.                                     

“It’s time to have some fun at camp Waitomo”!!!

The year 7’s, year 8’s and the teachers/parent helpers got onto the bus and drove off to the Waitomo Caves. The bus driver stopped in Taupo so we could have some lunch and have a toilet break. We stopped in Otorohanga to look in the kiwi house. We stayed at the kiwi house and did a quiz. I found the kiwi house quite fascinating because they are endangered animals so it was cool to see them in real life. There was a male and a female in the enclosure.

We got back onto the bus and drove the rest of the way to Waitomo Top 10 Holiday Park. Once we found our cabins we sorted out who sleeps where. In my cabin there was Edith, Dahlia, Rhian, Chloe and Rhiannon. Later that day we had a play in the playground, some dinner which was a delicious lasagne made by Mrs W.S, a swim in the cold pool and the hot tub and had a shower. A really yum dessert was brought to the table, a self-saucing pudding with cream, “YUM”. After a good nights sleep and a yum breakfast we headed off to Stubbs Farm to do some caving, abseiling and the covenant which is like a treasure hunt. My highlight of that day was caving because it was my first time doing it and it was a new experience. The abseiling was fun as well, as was the covenant but the caving was still the best. After a nice lunch, shower, dinner, dessert, and a sleep for the second night we were all ready to go to the Woodlyn Park show. Billy Black was a very funny guy who, I thought spent all of his time training his farm animals and setting the stage up because it was very cool. We drove to the Discovery Centre and learnt about cave creatures and the formations as well as glow worms.

“Now its time for a bushwalk with ‘Nigel’ (a.k.a Mr Easson)

We went on a Ruakuri bushwalk.

It wasn’t tiring but I did enjoy it.

Then we got dropped off at a dry glow worm cave. We walked down the track and looked formations of stuff made by the rocks. Then we walked over to a platform where we got on a boat and looked at the glow worms in pitch black darkness.

By the time people were ready for showers dinner was ready so we ate our dinner, pudding and had supper.

Day 4 has arrived and we went to a wet adventure cave. That one was my overall highlight of the whole week because we got to climb up waterfalls. It got a bit deep (which was fun) and we had to turn off our lights that were on our helmets.

 

By Ella