Lake Daniell

Lake Daniell

On Wednesday I woke up after a 7 hour sleep and not wanting to get up. As my Mum yelled at me countless times, I decided to get up. As I rushed around the house doing nothing, I finally grabbed my bag and yelled at my Mum for being late.

When we arrived at school we went over the basics and packed our bags into Erin's car as mum and I jumped in. It took one and a half hours to get there but when we arrived we jumped out for fresh air.

When we started walking I instantly felt the 7 hour sleep kick in. We walked for 15 minutes till we stopped for a short break. When we started walking again, me and Nevey we at the front, until we stopped from our next 30 minute walk.

We arrived at Lake Daniell  ( it took 2 hours and 20 minutes  to get there) and we had some food and skimmed rocks on the lake until we had to start walking back. It only took us one hour and 40 minutes to get back because we only had one stop on the way back. When we got in the car it felt really good to sit on something soft!

We completed the Lake Daniell walk because we were learning about, the umbles, hypothermia and for the William Pike Challenges.

Beach Cookout

Today, April 5th Ruma Tahi and Waru went
down to Karoro Beach for the Willam Pike cookout challenge.

Today when we went down to the beach and
we got in our groups, our group parent was Clark Ellery.
He helped us get ideas on what would be better to do and
what to get for the fire. We had watched a video on how
to start a fire  and keep it going.

Last week we had planned what we were going to cook,
everybody had things to buy and bring. I had to bring tongs,plates and oil.
Sasha brought the food and Eamon had to bring cheese and tomato sauce.
We each gave her $5.00 towards the cost.

We had planned to cook burgers and smores. Sasha had also brought a
hot plate, so it was a lot easier to cook things.
First we started by putting the oil on 1 pattie and rubbing it on another
 to spread the oil. After we spread it, we put them on the hot plate and
waited for them to cook. When they had cooked we moved them to the
cooler side of the hot plate. Next we put all of the veggies into the burgers.   

My favorite part was when we got to eat the food, because
I wanted to know what the burgers would taste like.
I was really surprised because they tasted really good!
The smores were ok because I kept burning them.

This was such a fun experience and I would like to
do it again because it was nice to be outdoors and be around more  people.