"I'm gonna miss the bus!" My sister Nellie yelled banging on the bathroom door, "It's not the end of the world" I replied Cheerfully she punched me. I rubbed my arm and poked my tounge out at her,I hoped in the car and finished my breakfast on the way to school. My mum drove me to school last Thursday because we were walking up Cooks Cove in preparation for year six camp and she was a parent helper. When I got to school all the year six's divided into groups with the parents they were driving with, I was in my mums car with Amber and Ella. This was good because we all do horse riding so we had something to talk about. As I predicted we spent the whole drive talking about horses.
When we arrived at Cooks Cove me and Ella went and sat on the fence. The teachers divided us into our camp groups. My group was at the front of the line, Raphi,Momo and Ella were in my walking group and Marcus was the parent. The walk was easy and fast for about the first ten seconds then we got to the stairs and it started getting steeper and steeper... When we got to the top of the hill I was hot and sweating. By this time we were at the back of the line but the hardest part was behind us. We kept walking and soon we were in my favourite part of the walk the bush,Yay!
We walked down hill and me and Ella chatted trying to keep in a single file line. It was tricky but most of the time we managed. "Did you hear that" I asked Ella, "No" she tried to hear "exactly" I ran to keep up with the rest of the group. My ears were filled with quiet whispering about five groups were craning their heads to see something in the bushes. "Can you see it, where is it, it's so pretty, what's all the fuss about" everyone was talking about the same thing and it became apparent to me when I looked up there sittin in a tree in the middle of the day was a beautiful morepork everyone stared at it.
But sadly all this standing around looking at the morepork made us far behind the rest of the group so we had to run to keep up. Soon the bush opened out into hills of grass and we had lunch at Cooks Cove, then we went through to the Hole in the wall. We walked all the way back. By the time we finished the walk most of us were red faced and panting, "My feet hurt" someone said. But the fun didn't last long because that night there was a giant earthquake.
Here are some of my favorite pictures of the amazing time we all had.
Morpork.
My walking group.
Us at the lookout.
