By Rachael Cooper | Posted: Tuesday March 6, 2018
On Tuesday 7th of February Room 13 went on the 2018 Wainui Year 8 camp. Here is some information about the activities we took part in.
The Giant Swing was an exhilarating experience, where you sit on a swing and hold onto a metal bar and are pulled back, by your group mates, with a rope. When you think you’re high enough, you pull the release mechanism, which is a spoon that is attached to a rope. The wind rushes past your face as you go flying through the air. Pulling everyone up is hard on your hands, but when you get the rush of adrenaline it all pays off.
Trudging across the rocky terrain, waiting for the jump - this is coasteering. To get to the beach, you need to walk backwards, down a steep hill using a bungee rope. Once you get down to the stoney beach they ask you to get in the water, so you get used to it and try to find “Wainui Fish” - a trick for the instructors to splash you. After the walk around rocky corners you have to jump and swim to the mini island, this is where you do the rest of the journey. After a minute or two of clambering you get to the big jumping spot: Baby Bear, Mama Bear or Papa Bear.
Swimming, swimming, swimming, looking for the fish roaming freely in the sea. While swimming around at high tide, you can find some mussels - like we did! There’s nothing else really to do at snorkelling, except for swimming.
Kayaking is lots of fun and you paddle around Tikau Bay in the two-man kayaks. Once taught how to paddle and move around you play Sharks and Minnows (tag) in your kayaks as you try to paddle away from the instructors, once everyone is caught you are called back together to build a raft by holding on each others kayaks and using a buoy as an anchor. Once all in a big raft, the tutors ask who would like to try to run from one end of the raft to the other and back again, it is hard to make it without a splash or plonk into the salty water! Then the instructors’ deliver rocks so you can play a game where you steal each others rocks and see who has the most at the end.
By Ben Camm, Ethan Hamilton and Hamish Morgan
Room 13 Roving Reporters