Mr B

Suddenly camp is over!
Well Thursday was a highlight! We went sailing on lake Taupo! What could be more fun.
When the kIds weren't out on the water really sailing they were kyaking around!
A neat day.

Friday was a bit slower.. we went on the HUKA JETS!!!!!
WOW. Mr Weir has some neat photos of both the sailing and the jet boating so we are looking forward to seeing these!

Friday from bout 12 til 4.30 we went Trout fishing in Turangi. Everone caught their very own trout.. we had a scaenger hunt and all in all leanred alot more about rainbow trout and the more ellusive brown trout....
This was aneat place and resource and everyone thoroughly enjoyed the time and the fishing of course.....

It was then off to Tauramanui by about 4.40ish for dinner and then the back road from there to Toko!

It went very well without it seems a hint of travel sickness! Perhap due to the speed of the bus.
We had a little emergency toliet stop at the Whanga pub!
All in all with three stops to let kids off ( and find their bags) we arrived in town at about 10.30pm with still more parents eagerly awaiting the rreturn of their children!
A BIG THANKS TO THE PARENTS ONN CAMP
KAY, PAUL JOHN NAD ANDREW... YOU WERE GREAT.
BIG THANKS TO HEATHER FOR THE PLANNING AND ORGANISATION OVER THE YEAR TO GET US TO THIS POINT.

The journey home gave Heather and I a chance to plan a few camp based learning activites over the next few weeks.
Thought we might base the maths around the fishing!! Great stats unit for a week or so. Length weight etc
Thought we might also use the new colour photocopier and develop informational posters for each of the businesses/ enterproses we went to.. Do a sorta sales/highlights poster for display in their office or window about the learning that can go on here! The use of the digital photos would be key, incorporating a map, information, picture to give an impression of what is to be gained by going there!
Plus of course we had quite a bit to do with life cycles and importantly the continued use and value of natural resources of the area... so lots of opportunities to do valuable and meanigful follow up!
Cheers
Richard

Mrs Savage

So far so good. Kids have been great and enhusiastic about all the activities. Caving in Waitomo was a highlight. We had to crawl through squeeze holes and clamber up water falls. Samuel managed to get a cave weta to jump on my nose much to his delight!!We visited the bee hive yesterday and found out about these amazing insects .They are a wonderful example of Gods design and creation.Today its off sailing.

Mrs Shearer

hi this is camp mum kay shearer. i am having a great time, had a lovely warm swim in the pools after seeing alot of thermal pools on wednesday. boy can girls talk late at night but when i'm snoring at night it's play back time! oh us parents had a great big juicy steak for tea, how spoilt is that for tea! looking forward to sailing and kayaking.

Mr B

Hi there!
From bees to dams to the pools to the gysers!!
I thought the visit and talk about the bees was great... and free.
What was really neat was the number of boys buying their mums presents!

We saw the opening of the "flood gates" at the first dam on the river.
We learned that the Waikato has about 6 dams!

We saw the best hot mud pools that I can remember! Hot burbing bloating bubbling mud.

We saw an amazing cave ( the largest geothermal cave in the southern hemisphere!

We spent a lot of time in the AC pool... well the kids and John and Paul sure did.
Awesome day, hot too!

Kids looked shot this evening when we arrived home at about 8.30 after BBQ dinner at pools. Time for showers and beddy byes!
Tomorrow,,,, sailing of course!

R

Makayla

Hey guys I am from Toko school in Taranaki we stayed at Waitomo Caves on Monday the 30th of October and departed for Taupo on the 31st of October and are staying at LTCC.
LTCC stands for L-Lake T-Taupo C-Christen C-Camp. We went to the Huka falls and watched the water fall of the top of the water falls. We also went to the opening of the dam and went in the same area and watched the Huka Jet go flying across the water and figured out that we are going on it on Friday the 3rd of November. We are going sailing on the 2nd of November from 10:00 - 4:00pm we went to the AC Baths,and guess what the AC Baths are on Spa RD get what i am saying well some people might not find that funny but I do.(LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL.) L-Laugh O-Out L-loud. I will stop gas bagging and go to bed because I am so tired and the reason for that is the teachers and parents have warn me inside out. Goodnight.

ethan

Well this monring we went for a walk around the geysers then we went to a look out to see the gas fields. We also went to see the dam drop!!! and then we went to the a c baths.i have lost my voice completely and every one keeps laughing at me.

tyler

Well today we had a really fun day.... we went caving in the Huhunui cave. Our guides were called Tim and Steve. We saw lots of cave wetas and glow worms the glow worms were disgusting in the way they moved and they were tiny. The water got up to my chest at one time.

ethan

This morning at waitomo camp frank started packing at 5:15 and he woke all of our cabin mates up.

Madison

So far so good in Taupo. We went for a freezzzzzing swim but it got warmer me Ethan and Tyler were in for about an hour and all the rest went out. This place is awesome it has mini golf, pool,a pool table,ping pong and a play ground... There is a big high rope thing that we are not allowed on yet but we might tomorrow !!!
Well thats all i have time for folks see ya next time.

Elysse

Hi,Yesterday we had a busy day we went caving in the Huhunui caves. We all got wet and it was awesome! There was eels and fresh water crayfish that we didn't get to see(thank gooness!) Today we went in the Auranui walk,we saw the collapsed tunnel and went through a dry cave and I watched out for wetas! We also went on the glow worm cave tour and saw lots and lots of glow worms!We are doing so many cool things on camp and I can't wait till next year as well! We had an awesome time and I can't wait for tommorow!
See ya. Lv Elysse

Brian

Waitomo was awesome because we got to do go through heaps of caves like huhunui cave and it was full of water and i was the only one that jumped in to the water up to my neck and people said it was cold as an iceberg but when i went in it was warm.
There was another cave that was dry and we got to go into a boat that would float under heaps and heap of glow worm.
Glowworms are not really worms they are magots or they are flys and they do eat flys too but I dont think that they would eat their own kind.

Georgia

hi hows it goin?2day we went in the wet caves it was awesome!!!!!!The water came up to my stomach so i was drenched but all the same it was pretty cool. It is fun spending lots of time with my friends too but on monday night joanne tried to grab my pillow out from underneath my head (i thik she was asleep) and that was quite scary soooooo i hope to see you on friday.

seya

Sally

Hi everyone hows it goin? I got a migrane on Tuesday i didn't do any thing but lie down. Appart from that it is really cool! I'm at Taupo camp now. We saw lots of glow worms! Got ta go see ya on Friday.

lv Sal

Day Two!

Big day today,
The big event well well, that was Huhunui caving... But the smaller walks were great too!
Visits the Potaka Pa which was quite a jaunt. Up hill and uphill some more.
Drove across from Waitomo to Mission Bay Christian Youth camp!
What an awesome place this is, especially when compared to the rather budget accomodation of the previous night!
Trying to get kids to blog but they are all having too much fun outside!!
On the bus on the way over tried to record the kids and their journey thus far!! You never know it might get up to Toko Talk!!!
R

Gidday

Mr B here.
Well we have blogged on school camp for a couple of years now.
Here are the earlier addresses:
2004
2005

Here we hope to give you a taste of our camps with a few postings by the children as well as some lead up bits and pieces and then a few post camp posts. Hope you enjoy it.
Richard