Aquatics Review
On Monday and Tuesday year room 29,28,19,17 and room 25 went to Port Noarlunga Beach. We went on a bus at 9:05 a.m. to leave to Port Noarlunga. We all got there at 9:30 a.m. Then we got into our groups for our activities. Our group had to put on wet suits and a PFD. We walked about 800 meters to our activity. The first activity I did was wave skiing. It was similar to kayaking. The similarities between kayaking was paddling. We learnt how to paddle backwards which was a challenge. We also learnt how to turn. Wave skiing went to 11:30 a.m. and we had to make our way back to the surf life saving club. We had to rinse our wet suits and take our PFD’s off. We had a 5 minute break and waited at the surf life saving club for our next activity. My next activity was kayaking. Our group had to walk down to the river in thongs or shoes. Our instructor name was PHIL. After we went down to the river we had to go in this shed and grab a paddle,a pair of booties and a PFD. We learnt the basics and paddle in the water. In the onkapringa river the were fish. The types of fish were sand whiting and brim. After the activity we headed back to the surf life saving club to have lunch. When we finished lunch the year 7’s went on a reef walk and the year 6 and 5’s went on a beach walk along the river to its mouth back out the beach and back to the surf life saving club. Then we jumped back on the bus back to school.
On Tuesday we basically did the same thing. Get on the bus go put our wet suits and PFD’s on walk 800 meters and wave ski. The water was a bit more still on Tuesday then Monday. After we finished wave skiing we did the same thing as yesterday. After kayaking we went on a reef walk. A boat took us out to the reef. We learnt about the shells and species on the reef. The slippery green stuff on the feet was called algi. After the reef walk we packed up and went home. I had a lot of fun and I recommend wave skiing and kayaking to other people.