My favourite thing to do at Riverside Camp

In the first week of the holidays I went to a school camp for 8 - 13 year old students. It was run by our school principal, the leaders of the groups were college students. Our Riverside camp was held at Willow Park Christian Camp by the seaside. Back before I went along to Riverside camp it was held at Totara springs. But after a few years the money expenses of the bus down and up, then the staying there was too much for our school. But Willow Park on the other hand, only 30 minutes bus down and the cost staying at the camp was also cheaper. So now we go to Willow Park.

My favourite part about the camp was the beach games. Since we stayed across the road from the beach we’d normally go down for a swim, kayaking or beach games. The beach games themselves were alright, but when it started to rain things got a little more interesting. We all could see that the rain was coming and decided that it wouldn’t matter. So when the rain came we started doing more of water games than sandy beach games. Then after a while Mr Burt our school principal and organiser of the camp said, “You can all jump in the water for a swim!” and as he said that everyone dropped the gear they were holding and rushed into the water. The water felt warm because the rain was so cold. We stayed in the water for a while until we were told to pick up our gear, go back to the camp site, get warm, dry and ready for dinner.