Day four in Wales

Group 1

Today, we went for a day of adventure. We all had so much fun with our amazing instructor Stu. He took us threw rapids and waterfalls and pitch black tunnels. We started of with a long drive and another train tunnel. We had no torch and only knew to hold on the left wall singing all of the way. After a two second drive we arrived at a zip wire and Rapids. We climbed up the river and used the water falls as slides, eventually reaching our best challenge yet. This was the shuffle bum challenge, with nobody finished but Harry S coming close. The worst of them all was Uncle Nick (aka Mr. Charalambous) slipping everywhere. With a long walk back to the van, another day another waterfall.

By Harry S and Finley


Group 2

Today group 2 did a walk up, along and down mountains. We got kitted out in walking boots and waterproof trousers in case it rained, before setting off from the centre. We walked along a small road and a field before reaching the gulley we were going to walk along to get to the top. After refilling our bottles from the fresh water at the bottom of the gulley we set off, half scrambling, half walking to the top. After a few breaks we got to the top where we ate a brief snack and refilled our water once again. Once we finished our snack we set off along a marshy bit of area where we then came back on ourselves and headed to the peak of our first mountain were we ate our lunch. After a few photos of the wonderful view, we headed along the edge of the mountain, past the gulley and up to the top of the second mountain called (Lord Herefords Knob, don't ask why it's called that!). With some pauses in progress to jump over multiple puddles, we reached the summit of Lord Herefords Knob. We had a nice long break, giving us a little more energy and then started going down the mountain. The way down was quite hard on the feet and a few people slipped (including Mr Thomas!) we reached the bottom and walked back to the centre

By Henry J, Bradley J and Toby B


Group 3
Today we went caving in porth yr orgyth; once we arrived we were given waterproofs, belts and helmets. We then journeyed into the cave. Inside, there was a river that led deep underground, first we entered a chamber which contained the white horse, a formation of limestone calcium carbonate that shows resemblance to a horse (although it looks more like a giraffe). We then proceeded deeper into the cave, squeezing through tiny crevasses and completing challenges along the way. One of the challenges was 'the letterbox'. It was a tiny gap in the wall where we were forced to squeeze our bodies into. Another one of the challenges was 'the toilet'. This was a little hole in the ground which led to a freezing cold body of water. It was named the toilet because of the tiny flooded gap that we crawled through. Towards the end of our day, we all jumped into the lake! Although we were freezing cold and wet, we enjoyed ourselves greatly.

By James B and Oliver W