Friday 7 June 2019

The spinnie ball


Where am I

In the summer this place is great. The reflection of the water is amazing - you can
see the trees and the bright blue sky. The best part is camping on the side of the
lake in our little campervan. Cracking out the boat and biscuits and riding on the
water. Coming back the tourists are everywhere. Jumping off the wharf into the
water it's freezing.
In the winter you don't dare to go into the water or you'll be sick by the next day.
We would usually stay a night but we would rather not. It's like no man's land so
we would just leave.


Declyn

WPCA Reflection

On Wednesday we went Rafting down the Arnold first we got picked up by the polytech people then we
drove to the polytech at the polytech we got changed into our wetsuit and thermals. We jumped back into
the vans and drove to the Arnold we got our safety instructions some of the things we learnt were how to
people onto the boat if they fell off and if our instructor yelled to get down we had to get down and hold on
where we had to hold on.


As we got in the water we had to learn how to paddle that was pretty easy then we went downstream on
the first set of rapids we were going about 7 km per hour and then we had started talking about trees
there where beach trees dog trees kahikatea and heaps more than he asked us do you know why the
water brown I said poo as a joke and he said it's the taniwha poo.


Then Reuben our instructor was telling us some funny jokes and then our instructor yelled GET DOWN!
We flew over the rock crash as we hit the water “woohoo” we yelled as we nearly fall out.