Saturday, November 15, 2008

We were all wet through after going through the par course.By the way, those were our tents behind us.

This was the final checkpoint for our river crossing and rafting activity. The line is the boundary to prevent us from floating way down to the open sea at the far end whereby a small jetty which could be seen in this photo.

We were on the hill, half way through our jungle trekking activity. The view was really marvellous!


Sand castle building competition. This group won.




Posing with the sand lobster with Jee Ying.




Hoho, I'm back to continue my story...

Third day

We had river crossing and rafting activities. It was cool. We had our water confidence session first in the river. The water was salty as it was nearly at its end -The river mouth which invites the open sea water. During the river crossing activity we had to float down from the upper part of the river slowly in groups... going under the bridge till the final end were we were 'blocked' by the rope suspended by floating buoyant balls. There was the point where we had to swim to the bank. Fun it was, but the water was quite dirty. I had itchy rashes appearing on my hands after that one hour dip. Luckily it was nothing serious. A couple drops of moisturising lotion from my friend after the camp ended remove the itchiness from the back of my hands. Rafting was an even better thing. We had made it with our own bare hands the previous night. My group won the rafting event as we took the shortest time to reach our checkpoint. What a pity we can't snap any photos of it as we were drooping wet.... Our raft was strong enough to last the whole journey thought the current was strong at that time.... We had a long bath after those activities...lol...

Fourth day (Final day)

Nothing special though there were no exercises that morning (considered as a treat I assumed). All of us woke up late...but not too late...about 9am...Had breakfast and started to pack...while waiting for the bus there was an optional activity - fishing... which I did not participate...I feel that it is too cruel to cause pain towards other living thing while we had our pleasures... The fishes weren't dead at the end of the day as they were released as soon as they were caught..but still this fishing method cause pain to the fish... just imagine that your mouth was torn by a sharp hook...Then you were held helplessly and desperately gulping for water while the humans posing with you for a couple of photo snaps...Then just as you are passing out... you feel a sharp pull...your mouth is torn as those youngster were no experts in taking out the hook from the hole in your mouth... as you struggle to free yourself from the palms of the clumsy person...the wound deepens... Then you were thrashed overboard into the water... now you feel relieved,but you have to face your hungry friends who were trying to nibble at your wounds... See what i mean? so no fishing for me...

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