Huia 1 and Kea 1's camp at the Awhitu Environmental Camp

This is where we have been for a week.

and here.

Here are some random photos from our camp at the Awhitu Environmental Camp last week.


They are in no particular order but will give you an idea of some of the activities we did and the experiences we had.


There are still lots more photos to come.

There are some places along the road to Awhitu where you look right down into valleys and out to the west coast.




Fun on the rope swing - over a creek which got deeper as the tide came in and swept away Stanley's bridge and dam.


Red-billed gulls who shared some of our biscuits for morning tea on Thursday.


We went for a long walk to find the eels - and to entice them out of the water with some of our luncheon sausage. They got quite good at standing up on their tails to 'beg' for food after a while.




Recreating a scene from World War 1.


Some of us had a cold swim.


The zoom slide - getting wet and wild... and dirty. And, that wasn't only the students.

Well, you didn't think you'd get me on the zoom slide, did you?

At the light house at the tip of the Awhitu peninsula - investigating the Orpheus shipwreck.







A walk through the Awhitu Regional Park.



We found a nest of plover eggs in the paddock. (Mrs Whitehead knew they were plovers).


Hobo stove cooking - Master Chef-style.






And then we had to speak Spanish to say what we wanted for meals.





We went to the Orua Bay bird park - and fed the birds.








The men taught the boys how to light a barbecue.


We saw the sun rise and we had a beautiful full moon.