Mt Binga Camp 3 9C Thursday November 6

The start to our camp at Mt Binga has been great!

We have all settled in and are getting to know our way around and the jobs that we need to do each day.

We have also spent time learning how to navigate with a map and compass.

On Tuesday, the boys and girls were driven in the troopie to different campsites.
We set up our tents, cooked our food on the fire and camped overnight.
The next morning, we had to use our new navigation skills to find our way back to Mt Binga.
It wasn't a really long walk and we had fun trying to work out which way to go!

Today was a bit of a weird day!
We had rain all day yesterday and so the girl’s horse riding activity was cancelled because the ground was all wet.

Instead of that the girls did the same thing as the boys which was low ropes and initiative games. Everyone was split up into groups by the the dorms you were sleeping in.
The first group which we were in did low ropes.

This was a course with a series of high tension cables and we had to walk along to get to the finish. Then we did this group building activity called Hadrons Wall.
We had to climb up a vertical wall about 3 meters high.
Ryan and Alex lifted everyone up over the wall while everyone else pulled them up.

After that we had lunch.
After lunch we swapped over the groups doing low ropes and initiative games.
The first game we played was a game were we had to throw a tennis ball to everyone and they all had to touch it at least once the object of this game was to complete a full circle in the least amount of time.
As a group, we figured out that we could cut down time if we used only one finger and we got a time of 0.2 seconds!

The last game we played was Three Blind Monkeys.
The object of this game was to guide a person to do the right thing but the twist was that the person was blindfolded.

Tomorrow everyone goes horse riding. We can't wait!

We hope to write some more for the blog over the weekend when we have time to chill.

Hannah
Zach