Since the last blog we have been really busy with work, school, Tafe and also camps. I am currently working at the Kununurra Visitor Centre every Monday and the Kununurra Community Resource Centre every Tuesday as part of my school based traineeship. I am currently doing two different cert II courses, one in Business and also in Creative Industries, which means I have a lot of work to do.
At the end of last term we embarked on our first camp block to Gibb River Station it was a long 5 hour drive out there packed in a troopie with me, Justina, Katie, Shiriya, Kerri, Peter and Alex. We all squeezed into the car with no leg room because we had all the boxes of food and other stuff. When we finally got to Gibb River Station we unpacked and set up camp. Most of the week we were fencing, we started by taking down the old barbed wire and taking out the old post and hammering new posts in and then putting the barbed wire back up and re-straining it, this created a holding pen for the cattle – that we will use when we come back out to Gibb. On one of the days we got a killer, one of the station people killed a cow, then we went and skinned the cow and cut up the meat.
Mid-way through the camp I was getting worried that we might not be able to get back to Kununurra because the river was too high to cross because it had been raining flat out. I had to fly out to Adelaide the day after we were meant to get home so I was quiet concerned. After two days of fear Mrs Audas told me that the other car that was coming to pick us up could not get over the river, I was really sad because I was really excited to go to Adelaide. But then Mrs Audas and Mr Coltman told me that we would catch a plane from Gibb River Station to Kununurra. Ryland, Owen, Zack and Mrs Audas boarded the 5 seater plane and had a 50 minute plane ride instead of a 6 hour car ride – which the other KEFL kids had to endure. I was very happy about this and that was the end of the camp.
Last term we left for a canoeing/kayaking camp down the Upper Ord River, we started at the Lake Argyle Dam wall and left with high spirits and happy faces. We stopped 5 km in to jump of a rock we all jumped and some of us did different tricks like back flips, after about 30 minutes at jump rock then we paddled down to our first lot of fast water we called it obstacle 1 it wasn’t as fast as we thought it would be but it was still fun. After that we paddled to sandy beach where we ate lunch. After lunch we sat down relaxed and then had our first Kefl war! It was Jeremy, Alex, Peter, Andrew, Ryland and Bianca onto me. It was a good battle but I think I won. We left sandy beach and were only half way. Another hour passed and I was fed up with paddling and wanted to stop and go home but Marcus (my canoe partner) kept me going, for the rest of the journey me and Marcus would join up with Justina and Bianca’s canoe to have little breaks, where we would stop paddling and eat chocolate and lollies and we called them chocolate breaks. So every time we were tired and wanted food we would just yell “chocolate break,” after a long 7 hour day of paddling and 25 km we had finally made it to our camp. We set up camp and got the fire going and sat down and relaxed, after dinner we played some camp fire games and then went to bed ready for another day of canoeing.
We woke up the next day ready and rearing to go, we all got dressed had breakfast and started paddling up Coolamon Creek, it was good fun paddling up this creek because it was a very narrow creek and lofts of trees where we hand to lay down in the canoe to get under. So we went to the end of Coolamon Creek turned around and set course back to the camp site, when we got back to camp we found out that we didn’t have to paddle anymore and where having a boat to pick us up, so we packed up camp and waited for the boat. When the boat got to the camp we loaded the boat and everyone climbed on board and we went home to Kununurra. It was a hard long camp, but I really enjoyed it.
Coming up for KEFL we have lots more camps and activities. I am really enjoying KEFL and never want it to end… this is the opportunity of a life time and I would recommend it to any person starting year 11. You will get the best out of it and it’s a one in a million opportunity.
Thanks for reading…
Josh
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