Mount Arthur Track

The Mount Arthur Track is two days, and it is 53km long. You can get to the Mount Arthur track via Cobb valley in Takaka or Graham Valley road in Motueka. Kahurangi is the second largest national park in New Zealand. The Mount Arthur Track is rated at ‘moderately difficult’ and it runs though the limestone and marble country. There are four huts on the Track, and some of them have quite weird names! Balloon hut has 14 bunks in it, Mt Arthur Hut has 8 bunks, Salisbury Lodge has 22, and Myttons Hut only has four bunks! The pathway is mostly unformed, with steep, rough and muddy sections. This track is suitable for people with good fitness levels. Moderate to high level backcountry skills and experience, including navigation and survival skills required. You must have Tramping Boots.

Term Reflection!!!!!

Hi!
In term, I have learned a little bit from the Literacy, a little bit from the Creativity, and a little bit from the Thinking Work!!!!!! I think that this Term's activities were extremely fun!!!!! I hope the next term's activities will be even funner!!!! I have learned heaps from this work!!! I think that the teachers did a good job of this all!! Although I enjoyed all of this work, I am glad of this 2week break! IT WAS AN EXELLENT TIME!! thank you!!!

Tangi

Yesterday, Mum and I came back home, after being in Wellington for three nights after Dad's good friend died. A Tangi is like a funeral, but instead of being sad, and gloomy, there is actually a lot of singing and merriment. When we were in Wellington, every night we got to stay up REALLY late, but I won't say how late, because the teachers might no approve!!! Well anyway, we stayed at a Marae for two of the nights, and one at another friend's place. there was lots of food there, and all the people at the eating place were all talking at the SAME TIME!! It was hard to even understand the person in front of you shouting at the top of their lungs!We had to catch the Ferry at 8.00 in the morning. By the time we got home, I was pooped.

Fence

Mum is tying lots of long manuka sticks together, to make fences for her garden. We are tying them to the outside of her garden to make her garden more sheltered from the wind. Yesterday, we went to get some sticks for her garden. We probably got enough to finish the whole garden yesterday.
On the way back, we went skating on our bottoms in the mud. We had an excellent time sliding down the hill, in the mud! When we got back, Summer and I were absolutely DRENCHED with water. By the time we got back to the house, I was pooped.

Kayaking

Hi! Yesterday, I went kayaking. I took my fishing rod too, just in case I saw some fish. I went over to the other side of the bay where the kahawai usualy are. I didn't see any fish, but just as I was going to cast my line out, a seal came and started eating all of the fish! I waited until the seal went away, because if I caught a fish, the seal might have stolen it.
I saw the seal swim off at a leisurely pace. A few seconds later, it shot off, zig-zagging across the bay. It's speed was amazing! A Kahawai would have had NO CHANCE of surviving an attack like that, unless of couse, it swam into a school of other kahawai. The seal would then be utterly confused and would lose it's prey.
ANYWAY, after the seal had gone away, I cast my line out, and guess what I caught? NOTHING! The fish were probably too worried about being eaten than eating.

Kayaking

Grappeling Hook

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!! Two days ago, I made a big Grappeling hook out of wire. It is good, because it can hook thing really easily.the width is about 10cm, and the height is about 15cm.