Borderlands Youth Adventure Camp: Day 1

Borderlands is currently running a Summer Youth Camp for 13 - 17 year olds.
Here is how one participant, Emily, described her first day with us in Kithulgala:

 "Today was great! Learned so much - about communication and team work. We did a game called "The Human Knot".  Misha found the first solution to the cross knot. The much harder second knot we worked out as a team, but there was a lot of miscommunication.

Following on from this we did some trust exercises because it's essential to our stay at Borderlands. We started as partners, then in groups of three and soon we were falling from the ledge into the hands of our team.

After lunch we headed out as a team on our hike to go canyoning. Some of us more worried about the wildlife than anything else but then, lost in the adventure, forgot all their fears.

We reached the canyon and were taught how to position ourselves properly. The last jump was from sooo high up that everyone had some fear but we all made the jump and there's no regrets. After a long day of canyoning we floated down the river as everyone laid back and relaxed.

After a long day of fun activities and meeting the funny and supportive staff we're all almost falling asleep from exhaustion. The activities that we will take part in tomorrow is all that will be in our minds. We're all very thankful to our instructors who really got us over our fears :)"

More tomorrow!