Mohawkwalk

Mohawkwalk is where you have to walk along a tightrope and try not to fall off, but if you do fall off there’s some one there to help you. I think the taller people are better at this because they don’t fall off as much. You really need teamwork on this activity. It is very fun and good. It is tricky because you have to walk without any help for a while. There are two parts, spotters and the people on it. The people who are spotting have to keep you on the wire; it was dangerous because spotters weren’t always on their guard.

Catwalk

The catwalk is about six metres above the ground and a lot of people were good at it and some were brave and tried but didn’t succeed. First you had to climb the tree, which was the easy part. Then when you got to the top of the tree you had to go along a log then go to the other side and touch the tree and go back to the middle and jump off. When you jump you get a bit scared. It is called the catwalk because cats have good balance. Most people wanted a second go. They really enjoyed it.

Orienteering

Orienteering is mainly map-reading. That’s because you get a map of an area and there might be something you have to look for, so there would be a small cross marking the area it is in. There is another way to do it: every marker counts for some points, and the partners with the most points after five minutes win. If a pair of people come just after five minutes they would still lose quite a few points. There are two courses to do: one is red, and you have to find red markers, and there is the green course, where you have to find green markers. That’s really everything.

Night Line

The Night Line is an ordinary course when brought to light. When you begin you are blindfolded. Before you begin you have to go through some safety regulations and play some games. When you are ready your instructor leads you to the Night Line (some groups were led blindfolded and some people were scared but got over it). When you started you held a thin rope. You would go where it went, e.g. through tyres and chains. Some annoying teachers squirted water at us, brandished mops in our faces, poked us with sticks and dropped things on our heads. When we finished, we looked around the course, and found it was incredibly simple. All in all, we had a great time!

Crate Climb

The Crate Climb was one of the hardest activities, because you had to build a crate tower in threes. But the difficult part was that you were standing on top of the tower. One boy made a school record of twelve crates! He nearly got thirteen but fell off. Thankfully we were wearing harnesses. The instructors very nice because they were giving us positive reinforcement. I think the Crate Climb was very hard and scary, but then again with all my friends by my side it’s not that hard.

Hub

There was an activity called the Hub. It was a problemsolving activity, where there was a big board which had numbers on it: you would choose a number from the board and the number you had chosen would be the activity you would do, such as the key, the flying carpet, the electric fence, handcuffs, crates and planks and traffic lights — and there were many more. We all did very well in them: they were hard but we completed them.

The Pole Climb

The Pole Climb is a wooden pole with wooden pegs sticking out: you had to climb up the loose pegs to the platform at the top. When you were there you kneeled on it and then stood up: this was the scary bit because you were really high up and the platform was really small. Finally you jumped off and tried to touch the buoy. Some people were too scared so they just jumped.