Pine forest

On Wednesday, Mum, Summer and I went to the pine forest which is 4 kilometres away to go sledding and to make some huts. To make my hut, we gathered up HEAPS of pine needles and we put them all in one ENORMOUS pile. To make the hut bit, we just burrowed out a hole in the pile big enough to fit one person.

Only 1 hour of school per day!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday dad said that we’re only allowed to have one hour of school each. We don’t have very much power so we can’t do very much school – sorry Sandy! because all our battery chargers are broken and also there isn’t enough water for the hydro. We had to eat dinner by candlelight last night and we also had to turn off our fridge because it uses 1 kilowatt of power per day!!! Our phone also is faulty now because its batteries are almost flat so it keeps on getting cut off! The Telecom people are coming tomorrow to fix it.

Kayak Catamaran

On Sunday, Summer and I made a catamaran out of our two kayaks. For the sail, we used a small blue tarpaulin and for the masts we used two aluminium poles.
We sailed really fast, and even though we couldn’t go upwind, we could go across the wind & down-wind!

REAP day

On Tuesday, we had a REAP day at our place. About twenty people came to the REAP day.
In the morning, we all did rope tying and in the afternoon, dad did alternative power with most of the people. I didn’t go, because I still wanted to tie more knots!

Dophins in the bay!!!!!

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On Monday, we were having lunch, when I spotted some disturbances in the water. Thinking that it was kahawai, I jumped up to look through the binoculars and discovered that they were actually Bottle Nose Dolphins! We went outside to watch the dolphins. There were about 10 of them. Unfortunately, the dolphins went out of the bay quickly.