Camp [Wednesday] - Camp, School, Wednesday

Time to write up my 3rd blog out of 5 (it's a sequel!

.) Also, I left out a couple of bits that happened on Tuesday so I'll write it here (since no one will read the Tuesday blog again -_-). Also, I've got Maple hands (thanks Razz!) so I can't really type that well.

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During our ride to our campsite, there was about a 2km strip of land, and basically it was a marshland. You saw huge, enormous puddles left, right and center on the track. I avoided most of them in doing so not to get my back splotted with mud, but in the end, what the hey, I ran straight through them. There was even one that went on for I reckon about 20 metres and it was so awesome. There were a couple of dangerous deep ones though, and I almost lost my balance when it scraped against the side of the "trench" (you know that feeling when you see your bike or see someone else's bike wheel come parallel and scraping against an obstacle? Yeah, it will most likely end up in a stack, which happened to my friend. You turn last minute at a jump, scrape the side of the wheel against the obstacle while you're moving, smack bang stack. Well, anyway, when we stopped at the end of the marshland, I saw my friends. All muddied up like no tomorrow. Ahhh! The mud men have come! Well, in front of us was a fresh tree that collapsed a few days ago blocking the road. Where art thou escape? Go around through the sticks that jab you. Yumeeeee. We also played a game Ready set slow, gotta keep balance and last the longest without reaching the end. I lost the first round to the ending up champion, but at least I lasted 3/4 of the way. Too bad I didn't get the wildcard entry.

Also, when one of our camp leaders (so you don't get confused there's 3, two of them women which they were leading the mountain biking and one guy, who led the other part with my class teacher) led us to the port-a-loo, dear of dear, we were short on toilet paper! Listen up, because this is how you wipe your ass.
1: Fold the paper twice into a square. Rip out the top right hand corner.
2: Now, you should see a circle in the middle of the tissue paper. Stick your finger through it.
3: Wipe your bum with your finger and gather the mushy brown stuff.
4: Close the tissue paper around your finger and wipe it.
5: Ah ah ah, remember your fingernail! Use the rest to dig it out from under it.
Yes, what a sick sick joke our camp leader told us.
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Okay, now on to Wednesday.
Today is probably the most eventful day since we swop groups. We pack up our bags, waking up to the sunlight. It's my turn unfortunately to get water down at a small pond. Down and down the treacherous hills we go. My small group fetching water decides to go the long way and pass the cave again.We go inside it and fetch the water. It's really, really dirty water, brownish really. Inside are tadpoles too. Anyway, we fetch it and climb up the slippery ground giving hill. Slowly we go, spilling water. At the start of a long hill and final hill, I pour maybe a quarter of it away and climb up. Ah, much lighter. Too bad my friend spilled so much the ground is giving way. To be further evil, I spill some of my water again too. Hehe, my friend will suffer. When I bring it back, 2/3 full might I add, I see that my other friends have only brought a quarter or less bucket full. Gee, great. Back breaking work too. I just collapsed.

When breakfast was happening and the fire was going, we went to make Jaffles. Basically toasted sandwiches. We made ours but had to do it again since it fell apart to the small iron clad toaster. Finally, we got it done. Into the red hot coals you go buddy. Great, golden brown without flipping them because we stuck in under a burning log. After we cleaned up and ready to go, bringing down some of the stuff but leaving the tarp up for the other group, we set off again. This journey was really the toughest part yet. There were so many jumps that "I had no momentum so I had to waddle over. And the hills, I'd say they were about 70 degrees going down and rising again. Finally, we reached the dusty road. We still saw the line previously where we played a game called Bumpers. Basically, you go in a circle and ride around. Your aim is to get people out of the circle or their foot touching the ground. The trick was to block their exit, and it was basically a matter of time before they fell. I ended up winning 3 games out of 6, since I was sneaky and somehow kept balance on most blocks.

Now, almost the end. We set off on the road (thank god it's mainly downhill!). The road, about 3km, was THE most funnest track ever! I would go on it again and again because it was so darn fun! It was mainly downhill, and I switched the gears to the max. I pedalled as fast as I could, reaching speeds of I'd say 50km/h. The funnest ride ever, maybe because there was no speed limitations. At about the end, there were HEAPS of bumps, and my arms felt like jelly being shaken rapidly. At one point they almost fell off from the vibrations, but miraculously held on. That was definitely the most enjoyable part of the ride for me. We went back on the road and entered the 5km driveway again. We split up into 2 groups : Cruisers and Speedsters. I went to the speedster group, and me and two friends decided to race it together. That was an awesome ride, and we covered it in about 10 minutes no breaks, and pushing it over the grids. We reached about 40km/h powered purely by our legs, no tailwind (unfortunately) and hills, in fact, it was mainly uphill. I reached the camp first (yay) and started to hose down my messy bike.

When that was done, we sat down for lunch, snags (sausages) which the other group cooked after they had finished their activities. We exchanged what we did for about half an hour and the other group got ready for the ride exactly like we did. We get handed over to our other camp leader, James, who actually looks like Roy, and he will be the most awesome guy you will ever meet. He can do anythign basically. He tells funny jokes and adds to the funniness with his voice and rambling, he can make balloon animals, he throws a frisbee bloody 100 metres, he's got strange but awesome music and he does awesome tricks with cards. Basically, he's an awesome bloke. I'm sure all the girls would find him cute :p.

Right, so after lunch, he leads us to the overseer of the farm. After answering our questions, he leads us to the sheep paddock and shearer shed. James just stands there and the girls call him a poo**** head. He thinks he knows what it means but the farm overseer wants to know what it is. We stand there for 5 minutes while the girls giggles after continuous asking. Finally, he gives up and shows us the door. UNDERNEATH! Hmm, did I mention that the whole paddock and shed, everything we were standing on was sheep's poo? Only this time, when we went underneath the shed, it was the fresh stuff, like muddy and it went on for a while. *sigh*, everyone went under without a fuss. Did I mention the one girl that didn't want to go? Yeah, well, the farm overseer, well, chucked the poo onto her head. Maybe we should move on. I got my shoes full of crap and my back kept hitting the ceiling so I crouch walked pulling along against the fence. Finally, fresh air...only to go back where we started. Funnily enough, I rubbed my shoes against James' pants, and for some reason, he didn't care. Hmm

interesting. Now to the sheeps shed. We touch the wool and it is so soft and kind of rubbery. It's that stuff they make cream out of. Too bad we found out it was like sheep's sweat. Now, to add further weirdoness, he told us to go through the chutes, which held the bad sheep's wool and yet again, crap. *sigh*, well, there weren't so much and it wasn't as bad as my friends, who went head first. Those idiots.... So, when we reached the end, we climbed over the fence into the main paddock.

We rounded about 50 of sheep up in a narrow small strip that was used to deworm the sheep called drenching. A guy in my group went first without being told what to do, and he spent 5 minutes trying to get the nozzle into the sheeps mouth and squeezing the trigger, but only managed to get one, well, not really one, since it was a failure. When it was my turn, I got them EASY. It took me less than 1 minute. Just be rough and tackle them around the head. Then you'll get it down to their throat. Finally, we finished.

After I chucked my poo filled clothes onto a line, we got ready to go to the beach! On the way, James' awesome music was played. You can hear one of his tracks here: link
So, we reached the beach. This was a natural beach, not the junk refined unsmooth sand you find on fake beaches, this was the real thing. Man, I love these beaches. Now, time for some fun! James' showed us sand dune jumping, where you jump off a dune into the ground below. Awesome as, falling a couple of metres before landing. After we did that, we wandered off and we found a small alcove with beer bottles stashed. My friend tried to collapse it by jumping on the top and James replied " Way to ruin it idiot". Lol. Pretty funny stuff. Then, he sat down and drew some weird patterns. While he did that, I sprinted across and pushed him to the floor, well, halfway since I didn't push hard enough. He managed to get a foot of mine and make me smash myself to the sand. >.