Our Trip to Eastern Beach

Trip to Eastern Beach Last Monday the whole school went on a trip to Eastern Beach. We got on the back of the beast and raced down to the beach. Once we got to there we all walked over to the reserve where Mr. Johnston was standing, and we sat down. He told us our rules for being at the beach. We all sprinted to a spot where our teacher told us to. We had morning tea then went out to play on the sand. The sand was boiling hot and was full of broken seashells everywhere. It was like walking over bits of glass just scattered all over the place. The sand wasn’t clean white like the paradise beaches, it was dark and dirty. Room 9 & Room 6 were both split into 4 groups, A, B, C and D this was for Kayaking. The year 7 & 8’s were thrilled to go kayaking. Ms. Kirkpatrick did a short training with each of the groups about how to grab the paddle and row. She also told us the do’s and don'ts while on kayaks. On land Mrs. Anderson was on ‘grass time’ for the whole day. She watched over everyone while Ms. Kirkpatrick was teaching us kayaking skills. Everyone was ecstatic. We played cricket and rugby, built sandcastles and explored. When it was our groups turn to go kayaking we listened to Ms. Kirkpatrick very carefully. After she had talked to us about kayaking we all got in a kayak and blitzed off towards the pink bottle that was floating. It was scary for me because I nearly fell out countless times. Once we all got to the bottle we all got close together, holding the kayaks next to us, while they were doing the same. Ms. Kirkpatrick asked Leila and Isaac to stand up and walk across the kayaks. Leila walked