Three days of fabulous fun at Living Springs with physical and mental challenges for everyone.

It began with a long, tiring walk from Governors Bay up to Living Springs. On the first day we did archery, rifles and low ropes. The low ropes were about building trust with people you wouldn't normally work with while archery and rifles needed perseverance and concentration. One more hill and we were up to our cabins. It turned out the boys got the hotel rooms and the girls just got the wonderful view of trees and dirty socks.

Day two, after an average sleep and waking very early,  we did orienteering and the adventure stream walk. If you could find all the checkpoints at orienteering you got an extra hot chocolate. The stream walk involved abseiling down slippery rocks and some unexpectedly deep dips in pools along the way. After lunch was the team building initiatives which was also about concentration and teamwork  and everyone had a different role to play.

The rest of the time was the monorail, Balanz bikes, waterslide, mini golf, trampolines and the swimming pool or chilling out in our cabins.

Overall, it really was a radical camp.

Along rocky shore

Over the hills towards camp

Exhilarating

Haiku by Matai