the Whangamata adventure race

The big race 

By Kyla Moore.....

The horn blared mum and I set off, the race had started.  "Good luck me" I said to myself. The race started on foot and then on bike at the start of the race we went up the hill heading towards the beach the waves were huge. In the bike section we biked on the beach and then we got off  our bikes and waded  to a little island there was treasure, the   treasure was a delicious  ice block. At the end of the race we had popcorn and it was good the popcorn was covered in salt and sugar...

Easter Holidays - part 2

A few photos of the other activities at Easter when not orienteering or looking for chocolate eggs.

Easter pancakes on the deck at Port Waikato with Warwick, Margaret and Eleanor

Exploring the Nikau Caves. These caves are on a private farm so it's only possible to visit on a guided trip. But the caves are unmodified so require wading and crawling to get though. Fantastic stalagmites and stalactites through the length of the caves and the highlight was traversing one section with torches off lit only by glow-worms. 

 

Climbing Mt Karioi near Raglan. Ropes, ladders and several geocaches on the way up. Cold and drizzly on the way down.

Easter holiday

BY KYLA

We had an orienteering Easter because the nationals was on.

The Nationals is an orienteering event. We stayed at a rented house in Port Waikato with my friend Eleanor.

Easter DAY...

In the morning Eleanor and I got up quietly WE HAD A PLAN...

We snuck out the door with our plan - map in our hands and looked in the places we thought the Easter eggs were.

We looked one way around the house then the other way round -we couldn't find any.

Next we went inside.

Later on my brother-Ryan had an orienteering Easter hunt when we finished we had found lots of Easter eggs not like when we did the quick check we didn't find any.

We got to eat them in our room...

CureKids 2015

Julia and Alan raced the CureKids Great Adventure Race with team Theta for the fourth year. The build-up this year was far from ideal with Julia's knee injury and Alan's broken finger. So our race plan was to take it easy and enjoy the day. Navigating down the wrong stream in the first part of the race put us well in the mid-pack, but a solid MTB and final trek bought us over the line happily in 12th place - good enough to win the IT cup once more. The most important result of course was exceeding all previous year's fundraising totals with $16,000 raised for CureKids to take our total over $55,000 since 2012.
Race report by team member Adrian is here on the Theta website.

By Alan