Lake Daniell Recount 2020

 Lake Daniell Recount 

On Wednesday the 9th of September 2020 Room 8 went on the Lake Daniell tramp for the William Pike Challenge. We had to be at school at 8:00am so we could get to the lake earlier. When we got to school we went over the leave no trace and not to go into the beech trees. Then we found out what our car groups were. My car group was me, Wyatt and Alex and Warren (Alex’s dad) was the driver. On the way to the start of the tramp we stopped at reefton where we all played ballrush for about 2 minutes and then we continued through the Lewis Pass to the track.

 Once we reached the start of the track we all sat down and were given numbers so that we could know if someone was missing we would say 1, 2, 3, 4 and stuff. We started walking and within around 5 minutes we reached the sluice box river. After we went over the sluice box river we went through a bit of bush and then we were next to the Alfred River. We continued going for a while and then we went past this bridge that said 4.1km <>4.3km so we knew we were about half way. We kept going along the track still next to the Alfred River until we turned to a mossy place with lots of bridges. Within around 30 minutes we could see the lake and I got excited so I started to run.

 When I got to the lake I dipped my head in the water for some reason but then I just went into the hut. I went into one of the rooms with some of my friends but then we were told to get out so we did. We ate our lunch and then got a photo but then it was time to leave.

 On the way back the people around me started to have a moss fight so I threw a few pieces of moss but then we got in trouble for not following the leaving no trace so we had to stay at the back in between (Flynns dad) and Ms Kemp for about an eighth of the way back. Most of us were allowed to go ahead but me and Cailan couldn't because we hit a tree which was sad. When we were walking back me and Cailan found ourselves by ourselves for ages and it was nice and peaceful and we were just talking the whole time. We did that for the rest of the walk back.

 When we got back to the car park it turned out that Nathan and Charlie had found a rope swing and that was really fun. Once everyone had made it back we all had to go back so we got into the same cars and left. On the way back Alex and Wyatt were playing music and then I almost fell asleep for some reason. Over all I really enjoyed the tramp and I would definitely do it again.