Cooks Cove caterpillar

 As we climbed up the steep lot of of stairs all I could hear was panting and puffing and we had only just started! We were walking up cooks cove in Tolaga to practice for camp that was only one week away! All the year sixes were pumped for camp and we were excited for this walk . We got through the stairs and were nearly at the top to get to the the statue but we had to make it through the steep hill ahead, my group were the first in the big line of year sixes so we had to jog up the hill!

We finally made it to the statue and my group got put at the back. In my group I had Raphi, Alice, Me and Momo. Me and Alice talked the whole time. We started walking the middle part and we started getting puffed and our legs started aching. There was lots of down hills and up hills and because its a farm there was lots of prickles and when I say lots I mean thousands. Once we got to the lookout  thing our teachers and parent helpers took a couple photos and we had a drink and a little read of the sign about captain cook's meetings with maori and his ships crew.

We started to walk down through the bush part but we had to make it down all the stairs without tripping. we were walking down the last lot of stairs, when we got on to the dirt track it had split in two tracks one indof deep down and one when you walk in the low one it is up to your hip and it looked funky! We got close to a bridge but we were stopped and shushed and told to look up it took a little bit to find but after a little we saw a... Morepork ! it was so cute we named it Phoenix after my horse. we crossed the little bridge one group at a time and we parked our caterpillar next to the long drop so kids could go to the loo. 

We walked past the hole in the wall and down to where Cook arrived and we had our brain break and talked. we started walking back and stop to look at the hole in the wall and take a photo. We all went in the hole and got called out. then we climbed up the huge hill we just went down but we couldn't see phoenix. we got out of the bush part and it was now all downhill and it didn't  take us that long. When we got back we talked about camp and left.