Cave stream

I got out of the mini van and headed towards where my friends were standing. While we waited for the rest of the group William pike and Mr Priddy took photos of us. When we were all ready we headed to the opening. When we got there every one was buzzing with excitement, we had to go in groups through the deep part.

 The water was quite warm but girls [and some boys] screamed in the first part but we got used to it. Here there were a couple of small waterfalls and loose or slippery rocks so we called back to the people behind to be careful the water started to feel warmer and warmer as we went further into the cave. 

At long last we reached a waterfall that was as high as my chest, two parents helped us up it then we had to wait for the rest of the kids. When we were all there waiting, not all patiently, William and Mr priddy took our photos. In one we turned off all of our head torches to see how dark it was.

 Soon we reached another waterfall that reached my waist, when I went over it I just about face planted!!! Because it was more of a wall than a waterfall. The water was deeper there and the water was cold on my tummy. We took a couple of photos but none of us knew where we were. After a couple of minutes Mr priddy told us that we had reached the end.

 I was one of the first people to go up the railings and I kept thinking that I was going to fall onto the people below me and crush them, but thankfully I made it out alive and so did my friends. 

  When every one was outside we had a little swimming time, in the river, I went under and it was nice and refreshing on the hot summer day. Then we set off to the mini vans and to get changed out of our soaking clothes.

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Hawdon Hut

Sitting against a steel pole getting border and border every minute as I wait for my friends to arrive and to start the amazing tramp that awaits. On Thursday 11th of February 2016 the year 8s from Loburn School went on an over night tramp to Hawdon Hut. I sat in the back of a mini van packed with my friends for roughly an hour and a half. Our van had a radio, so we were listning and singing to music the whole way. 

When we got to the Hawdon shelter we checked our packs and stuffed dry food into them. Then we set off on our wondrous six hour journey. after about five minutes of walking we came across our first river. We crossed in our food groups. I crossed with Holly, Emma and Haylley. The water was cold but nice on the hot day, the water came just above my kneecap and it soaked my leggings. We walked along the river bed for a while. Then we jumped a fence (not literary but we had to get over), went into the forest came out again walked more on the river bed crossed some more rivers went back into the forest and came back out. 

It was a very long journey and on the last biggish river it was so hot that we stopped for  a swim, we took turns diving in and it was freezing, Holly didn't want to go under so we started to splash her. After that there was only about an hour and a half to go. When we got to the hut we all dumped our packs on the deck and went to sit down inside. After that we unpacked our bedrolls and sleeping bags then we went to play out side. We went to the river and some people  went swimming. That night William Pike told us the story of how his leg got amputated. 

In the morning we packed our packs, had breakfast and headed off to the long walk ahead. it didn't take as long to walk back as it did to walk there because we took a different track. We walked in the open for ages and soon we could see the sun glinting off of distant car roofs. When we got to the mini vans vans most of us ran with our packs on the last ten meters or so. After a quick lunch we got ready for cave stream.