Wild Things

 

Mana

 

Whanau/Family Photo

 

Symmetry

 

Maori Colours

My book create

My task was to create a book in Te Reo Maori.

Diwali

 

Visual Art Lino Printing

 

Endurance

 

Skiing DLO

William Pike Bike Ride

 Bike Ride

 

On Tuesday the 22nd of September my class and I drove out to Milltown to start our 33km mountain bike ride on the Wilderness Trail. 

 

First when we arrived at school Ms Kemp sorted everyone into car groups and made sure that everyone was fully equipped with the right gear. I got to go in Scotts van with Wairini, Billie W, Phoebe, Indi, Tyler, Lily, Nevey, Emma, Poppy. In the front were the adults, Tim and Scott. 

 

To get to Milltown we had to go through Hokitika. It took about an hour to get to Milltown from our school. When we got to Milltown we took all of our bikes off the trailers, put on our rain jackets because it was lightly raining and then lifted our bikes over the gate because it was locked from all of the cows being in the paddock with their calves. Most of the cows were brown and white but some of them were black.

 

When I started to bike I was going slower so that I didn't waste all my energy. I biked past this little black calf which was really cute. I biked with Olive which was really fun because we were going the same pace. Not long into the bike ride there were so many hills and I had to push my bike up them and it was so steep. After a while I saw some tracks of people cutting so I decided to cut some of them because everyone was waiting for me. 

 

After riding my bike we finally got to go downhill into this place called Cowboys Paradise. It was a hill so some people did skids to stop and then my friends said that this guy came out and started yelling at some of the class so they were warning the rest of us not to skid but when they said that Cooper came and did a massive skid. As our class was passing through they were very quiet and making sure that they didn't skid.

 

When we got to the swing bridge it was so pretty and it was wider than I thought. I found it really illusional because we had to bike across it while it was swaying side to side. When we hoped of the bridge we had to go up more hills but not as many and there was also lots of downhill.

 

Then all of the girls got to go at the front until the next stop. The boys were right behind us tooting the horn and the others ringing their bells. Some of the girls including me, Billie H, Olive, Nevey and Emma went slow just to annoy them and they were not happy.

 

When we stopped we had a quick little snack and Lily gave all of the girls some pineapple lumps which was very kind of her. Then I had a muesli bar and we started to bike again.  

 

For the next part we went through fords that were really fun to cross even though there was not much water in the fords. We biked past this little place called ‘Travelers Rest’ which looked cool because it had a teepee and a little caravan.

 

Then finally we got to the cars where everyone had lunch. I sat in the horse float with Billie H, Indi, Wairini and Phoebe. Billie H was really nice and gave everyone in the horse float a lollipop. 

 

When we started to bike again there were lots of hills and flat bits on the track for the rest of the time I biked with Billie H. Then we got onto a track where there was water on each side. After we had been biking for a while we got to the dam where there were some ducks in there. Then we finally got to Kapitea Reservoir and then packed our bikes onto the trailer and then got in the van and drove back to school and as soon as we got out of the van the bell rang so we gotta go home.

 

I think that the ride was quite challenging but it had really nice views. I also thought it was really cool that most of the people got to finish the ride. I think that I would probably do it again but next time I would go on a few more smaller bike rides so that I would be fitter for the next time.  

 

By Summer

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