Ihumatea Bay (Urupukapuka Island) BOI Traditional Cache
Ihumatea Bay (Urupukapuka Island) BOI
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Russell School was out planting trees on Urupukapuka Island with children from five schools and couldn't resist placing a cache!
Please upload photographs from the cache, to show the growth of the trees.
A RECOUNT BY CHLOE COWEN: At first there were only five people in Room Six going, but then one school pulled out so the whole of room six was able to go. Where, do you say? Urupukapuka Island - to plant trees. Only five students from each of the other schools got to go - but we got lucky!
The day started when we got our shovels sorted at school. About five minutes after the bus arrived with the rest of the class, we marched on down to the wharf. When the Dolphin boat got to the wharf we walked down the ramp where Helen Ough Dealy asked us to check our bags for rats, mice and ants. Once we were approved, we boarded the boat. We took a seat then some people said a few words of safety.
A few friends and I went on to the bow of the boat. It was really fun but cold at the same time. Since we were sitting with our faces to the railing, we could see all the islands and the water. All of a sudden, this massive dolphin jumped out of the water and we got splashed! It was so cool! The dolphin probably jumped out of the water about 3 times. I honestly didn't know how big dolphins actually were!
Soon we were at Otehei Bay. Helen talked to us about safety on the island; how the traps work and all that sort of stuff. Then we had our morning tea and a play. Next we were off on our walk.
I thought it was going to be flat ground but no, we had to walk to the other side of the island. We had to walk up a steep hill, down a man-made track and then down a very steep hill. Soon we were going to plant some trees.
Next, Rod Brown explained the trees we were going to plant and how to dig the holes. There were akeake, poroporo, flaxes and other native plants. Soon we were off planting. It was on a hill that we had to dig and plant, which made it a bit hard, but we started digging anyway.
After about an hour planting trees, we had finished so we had lunch and went around the rocks. We found lots of kina. It was great fun. Soon we had to walk back. When we were coming down the very last hill, Rose was trying to roly-poly down the hill! It was hilarious to watch. She didn't get very far though.
Arriving back at the café at Otehei Bay, Helen gave out some prizes for great effort. Then we got back on the boat. It was about 600 metres each way walking so we walked over 1.2 kilometres the whole day. Well that was a work out!
On behalf of Room Six, I would like to say a HUGE thank you to Rod Brown and Fleur Corbett for organising the trees for all the students to plant. Also to the Dolphin Discovery for taking us out to Urupukapuka island and we can't forget about D.O.C for organising the tree planting. We had a great time on the island.
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