Aquatics review
For 2 days all the yr 6-7’s and one group of yr 5’s have been visiting port norlunga reef/beach for the aquatics program.
The aquatics program is a program that is made for teaching children about the port norlunga reef and how to do certain things like kayaking and snorkeling.
We leave the school at about 9 o’clock AM. And when we arrive we put down our bags and head strait of to our groups (I did kayaking) when I got to the river we all got suited up with reef shoes, paddles and pfd’s.
Our instructor calls them pretty fancy dooverlackey’s or personal floating device.
When we are all suited up we head the the river and drag our kayaks into the water and hopped in we did a lap while stopping occasionally to practice our parking skills.
After we finished our kayaking we had recess and headed of to our next group (fishing) when we arrived back at the river we and cut up some bait.
I was generally in charge of cutting the bate but I’m not trying to boast but I cut a fly in half while doing so.
We didn’t catch any fish but Daniel caught an eye sinker that he got to keep.
when we returned back to the main area again we went on a reef walk,
Heading of on the “rubber duckies” we went all. The way from the beach to the reef in a meter of roughly a minute, got of and started to observe the muscles and Alge
That was covering the large rocky reef.
We learnt about the dog welsh snail things that feed by eating other things from the inside out
And all other things on the reef.
Over all I think it was a great experience and I would defenetly do it again.
So far this year I have learnt lots about the conditions that the Anzacs had to fight in. For example some developed trench foot and lived in horrible conditions. Disease and rats were common place in the trenches.
