Annabel's camp recount.

Last week room 5 went to Weka Point for our year 8 camp. My favorite part of camp was hanging out with my friends and getting to do all kinds of fun activities. On the first day of camp we went to Pandora Pond there we did 3 activities, one of them was a 5km walk around the pond. My first activity was abseiling, it was really scary but fun at the same time. The last activity I did was fun yaking, I didn't enjoy it that much because by the time my group did it it was getting quite cold and windy. After that we headed to Weka Point.  The walk into camp had great scenery, but the swing bridge was really hard to walk across because Mrs K.J was jumping. We setup our tents and got settled in, and we had sausages and buns for dinner. After dinner we played a game of spotlight, but the game went flying to a halt after a girl face planted off a fence.

The next morning we woke up and got breakfast, and I had spaghetti on toast. After we had all dressed we went and sat in the dining room to be told what our activities for the day were.  Our first activity was archery soft. My group was called district 12, and wewon our first and second game but lost our third and fourth. Our next activity was the mudslide, I went down three times but I decided to stop after I got a big cut. My last and favorite thing was rafting. We had to make our own rafts with a tube and some rope. We had a race down the river and Anja and I came 2nd.  After rafting we had a go with a rope bag. Basically a rope bag is a bag with rope in and if someone is drowning you hold the rope and throw the bag to the person and pull them into shore. About 20 minutes before dinner me and a few friends went to the river for a swim, it was really fun. That night we had to make our own dinners. My cooking group made nachos and they were really good. Also that night we did a burma trail and roasted marshmallows. I did the burma trail with Riley.  It was really scary because it was on a hillside. I didnt roast any marshmallows because I had a sore stomach so I went and got ready for bed instead.

The last day we didn't do much, other than pack up our stuff and clean our tents. We didn't have to put our tents down because the next three groups were using. them. For breakfast I had vegemite toast. After breakfast we packed up all our gear and put it in a big pile next to the gondola. Then we did this trust game type thing.  We pretty much got blindfolded and our buddy would lead us around. After that we had to walk back across the swing bridge and up the hill and back again then we had to do that again because we were leaving for real this time. The drive back to school was really windy and long but really funny. When we got back to school they unpacked the trailer and we all grabbed our stuff and went home.

Here's some photos: