If I manage to maintain a semblance of hearing at the end of the evening, I will be incredibly lucky, after the Elizabeth Moir students have their end-of-stay big party, and enjoy lots of dancing, fun and ear piercingly loud music.
As has been experienced of late, the end of the day yesterday came with heavy, heavy rain - it woke most of the students up at around 3am, as well as myself, and as a result, unfortunately we were not able to do the abseil. A decision was taken by the staff that the water volume coming over the falls was such that it simply would not have been safe. So a change of plan was in order, as we took the kids to visit Belilena Cave, where we used the ancient backdrop for some team building games.
The drive back to camp always causes a bit of contention as to who gets to sit in the white truck - as you can see the lucky victors look quite pleased with themselves!
Since we had to think on our toes a bit today due to the cancelled abseil, it was time to get the kids on our new ropes courses.
Our zipline is not functioning, it needs a little finessing, the kids got a ride of their lives, and the river, empty of rafts today, was full of the screams of young students whizzing across from our tree house to the island opposite the camp. We also set them all the crate stacking challenge, a high rope course, where the premise is to stack the crates as high as possible whilst harnessed up. An amazing 17 crates by Nicole which means that not only is she the Elizabeth Moir champion, but has overtaken even our staff in their efforts so far at 16!
A great day despite the rain, rain and some more rain for good measure!
As always the evening social is a great hit - a chance for the kids to play their music as loud as they like without any parents screaming "turn down that racket"!
So I leave you with some photos from their night and thank you for entrusting your children into our care. As always we have been really impressed with the Elizabeth Moir students as well as thoroughly enjoying their company.
As has been experienced of late, the end of the day yesterday came with heavy, heavy rain - it woke most of the students up at around 3am, as well as myself, and as a result, unfortunately we were not able to do the abseil. A decision was taken by the staff that the water volume coming over the falls was such that it simply would not have been safe. So a change of plan was in order, as we took the kids to visit Belilena Cave, where we used the ancient backdrop for some team building games.
The drive back to camp always causes a bit of contention as to who gets to sit in the white truck - as you can see the lucky victors look quite pleased with themselves!
Since we had to think on our toes a bit today due to the cancelled abseil, it was time to get the kids on our new ropes courses.
Our zipline is not functioning, it needs a little finessing, the kids got a ride of their lives, and the river, empty of rafts today, was full of the screams of young students whizzing across from our tree house to the island opposite the camp. We also set them all the crate stacking challenge, a high rope course, where the premise is to stack the crates as high as possible whilst harnessed up. An amazing 17 crates by Nicole which means that not only is she the Elizabeth Moir champion, but has overtaken even our staff in their efforts so far at 16!
As always the evening social is a great hit - a chance for the kids to play their music as loud as they like without any parents screaming "turn down that racket"!
So I leave you with some photos from their night and thank you for entrusting your children into our care. As always we have been really impressed with the Elizabeth Moir students as well as thoroughly enjoying their company.
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