On Wednesday we loaded the trailer and piled onto the bus and set off on our Year Eight camp. Our first stop was the Tebrakunna Visitor Centre at the Musselroe Wind Farm where we read and learned about the local cultural history of the area. Shortly, after we made our way to a beach where we were able to hang out with our friends for a while before heading to our camp site at Petal Point. When we got to our camp site we set our tents up for both nights and unpacked our bags. We quickly got changed to go down to the beach again, this time we were able to swim and play beach games. After spending some time on the beach we went back to camp and got ready for dinner. We cooked ourselves spaghetti bolognese prepared by the 9/10 academy on a trangia. After dinner we washed up our dishes and talked around the campfire until bed time.

We started our second day with breakfast around the campfire before getting ready for the days activities.

We hopped on the bus take us to the bottom of Mt Cameron where we would then hike to 'The Mount Cameron Maze'.  There  were a lot of steep hills and lots of complaining, but when we reached 'The Maze' everyone had lots of fun exploring the maze. The hike back down was a lot quicker and easier. When we got back to bottom we chilled for a while before heading back to Petal Point, where we then went back to the beach for another swim.

Soon it was dinner time, we cooked chicken burgers and sausages on the trangias for dinner. Once the washing up was done, we got changed and roasted mash-mellows around the campfire and talked with each other until it was time for bed.

We had an early start to our third day, starting  with breakfast then shortly after we packed our bags, took down the tents and packed them away into the trailer. After we packed away our stuff we headed down to the beach one last time for a beach walk.  While we were  there, we held a competition to see who could make the highest and the most stable rock cairns, the reward was a packet of snakes. David’s group were announced the winners and we walked back to our campsite to have lunch. After lunch and a short rest we piled back on to the bus towards school.  

Overall the Year Eight Camp was an amazing experience and we would like to thank Mr Le Ferve, Mr Tyson, Mrs Taylor, Mrs Crack, Miss Walker and Miss Brown for making it happen.      

Savanna B and Aaron R