Last week we went on a camp to toonalook or the first time. My school owns a camp on the Banksia Peninsular called camp toonalook. Students start going to toonalook in year five all the way to the end of school. It takes 3 to 4 hours reach toona from the Melbourne CBD.

We left of sports grounds at roughly 8:30 on the bus and drove for an hour  until we stoped for the toilet at Yarragon but people spent most of there time waving at trucks and getting honks as replies from the passing cars and trucks. Then we got back on the bus and drove for two hours and watched Mr Bean until we arrived at toonalook were we unloaded our bags and pulled them though to gravel to small canvas cabins were we met  Charlie and Em the  year 11s that have come to toona with us we also met Jesse Grace and josh. I was in graces group and we started by doing kayaks while the other group went bike riding. We were in two person kayaks and I was at the back and got splashed a lot. We kayaked up to a point with lots of jelly fish birds rocks and shells before turning around and racing back. We came second. then we swapped over to bike riding and I hear harvey in the other group jumped in the water. On bike riding we did a loop around the peninsula through sand and gravel and got bitten by mosquitos. Then we went for dinner  and then played the shoe game.

The next day we went to see the water police down by the jetty were toona foam was. The toona foam was the camps first boat to use to get to Raman island and has gone into boat retirement. On the water police boat we looked at the outside were they had life saving equipment. They showed us life jackets and the living and sleeping places. We also saw the place they drove the boat from. By the end of the tour we all knew one thing we all wanted a boat for Christmas. Then we headed back to to the camp and packed up for expo and then had free time. After that we walked to our expo spot. Along the way we pasted the point that we stoped at with the kayaks and stoped for a while to skip stones until someone spotted a jelly fish and some of the boys started killing it with stones and sticks and so the jelly fish hunters began. So me and my friends had to step in and pick up the jellies and throw them out to sea. When we got to the expo spot the ute with our bags was already there and we had to set up our tents. Later that night we had dinner and played empires Duncan won by collecting the whole of Leo’s team and in the middle of the game it rained. Now I don’t mean you normal rain I mean bucketing litres and litres came down on us but we finished the game anyway and went to bed.

 

 The next day we left the expo spot to get the bus to the water bus to Ramen island. Our group was the first to go bike riding and koala spotting we spotted 31kolas and some were babies clinging on to there mothers. We also saw a tree that had bean cut out by aboriginal people  to make a boat. Then we had lunch and swapped activity’s and went fishing. We used prawns as bait and picked spots to wait for fish annoyingly we did not catch any fish but we arrived back at the expo spot before the other group to pack up so we packed up for them and walked the short way back to the toona camp. Later that day we had a scavenger hut my group came second and     another group found a ropes course behind the toilets. Then in our free time me and met friend collected a whole bag of rubbish and got a fredo frog each then we played gaga ball and wrote letters to our parents about the trip.

The next day was the last day and we started by going out of our tents early to watch the sunrise down by the beach that toona owns. Then we went to get breakfast in the hall. Later we went to start the toona challenge a series of activity to see what we have learnt at our time in toona. First we had to link hands with the people in our team and run around the toilet block. And it was a lot harder than it sounded with people stronger than others we kept tripping and falling but we won in the end and the other team got points for sportsmanship. Then the next task we had to collect enough banksia cones to fill a barrel we won that to but the other teams barrel was a bit bigger than ours so they still got points. The next challenge was different. It was on the beach and was a coordination and precession and we lacked that and scored little points. Then we won a hoop challenge and lost the chant challenge and the last round had extra points so the other team won in the end. Then we headed home on the bus.

Have you ever bean on a camp? How was it? Were did you go?