Since the last time I have written on this blog, the KEFL crew have been on a one week block to Gibb River Station, we have started horse riding out a Yeehaa, and have completed a canoe/ Kayak camp. All of these activities have helped me gain important life skills and extraordinary experiences that I will never forget. This year for me has gone the quickest by far, it’s crazy to think that next year is my last year of school.
We have now finished Canoeing for the year and have started mountain biking, we have a camp for bike riding next term which we will be riding to Wyndham on the Parry’s creek road. Today is Friday and on Monday we are departing for Gibb River Station at 6am for a two week block. The last time we were at Gibb we were fencing preparing for the muster to keep the cattle in the yards and into where they need to be.
This time we are doing a little more than fencing we are working with cattle but still doing a lot of fencing. On the first Gibb River Station trip we were out on the station for five days and for the majority of the time it was raining which made fencing a little bit easier as it was super-hot. Whilst we were there we went out with some of the locals and did a killer and ate it that night, it was an awesome experience and lots of fun. The trip home came along and there was a bit of a dilemma… there were not enough cars to take us back because the Pentecost River was over a metre high and could not be crossed. So I was one of the lucky ones and ending up going home on a chartered flight from the station to Kununurra.
On the canoe camp we went to the argyle dam in a bus and started our journey on the lake. We travelled 25 kilometres on the first day passing through some awesome parts of the lake such as rapids, tight spaces and reed and spider infested spaces. Once we got to the camp and set everything up we played some campfire games and mucked around for a while. I shared a miniature tent with Andrew, we could barely fit. In the morning we paddled to the very end of Coolaman creek and went through spider’s webs and log obstacles. Once we got back to camp we paddled downstream a bit to a rock we could jump off to kill time waiting for the triple j boat to come and pick us up to take us back to town, once it arrived at our camp we loaded it up with all of our gear and travelled down the river to the triple j dock. We were picked up from the dock and taken back to school to unload.
School is going well but the camps are always better - until next time goodbye.
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