Blackwood River FWR

intro and training week

WARRIUKA SCHOOL ADVENTURE CAMPING 2007

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TEAM
Well, things have changed a little at Warriuka since last year and even this past term staff changes have taken place so hopefully this will bring you up to date.
At the beginning of the term Ross, Matt and Dave were all a part of the Warriuka leadership team. Since then Matt has taken on the role of Scripture Union Camps Coordinator and Dave has decided to head back to Canada to work. Both of them are definitely going to be missed. Carly is now half way through her internship, which finishes in July. Warriuka also welcomes four new interns......
Danni Smith has come to Warriuka after completing her Cert IV in Outdoor Recreation at TAFE and has brought loads of skills to the team which is awesome.
Anna Pargeter 'aka' Pargy was a Physical Education Teacher in the UK but has ditched that to work for as an intern for the next 12 months.
Sarah Turner has also come over from the UK to be an intern for six months before heading back home to undertake her teacher training to pick up where Anna left off.
Theo Messenger was working with the Fine Edge department at SU and has joined the Warriuka Staff team for the first school term of the year.

If you want to find out more info on the funnest internship then click on this linkhttp://www.suwa.org.au/warriuka

TRAINING WEEK

This took place the first week of February in Wellington Dam National Park and was such amazing fun. Not only was it a great time for the new 2007 team to learn new skills, but also to get to know each other and have a good giggle. And I'll briefly try and fill you in on a some of the highlights of that trip with a few one liners to speed up the process......

• Having just flown in from the UK Sarah met the team for the first time at the SU office at 6am Monday just before leaving for Wellington Dam.
• The first day we hiked along the Bibbulmun track from Mungerup Rd to Yabberup Hut (about 11km) where we camped for the night. It was baking hot, there were Mosquito larve in the water tank, we ate lush curry made by Ross and Theo snored loudly at night!
• I saw my first kangaroo jumping its way through the dense bushland
• Next day was a walk to the canoes at the Dam and then a couple of hours on the water paddling to Potters Gorge Campsite, which was full of March flies that bit like crazy. But that was OK as the views of the lake were amazing.
• White water rafting down the Collie was flipping awesome. We put into practice a few of the rescue techniques we had learnt as most of us tipped out of our boats at some stage.
• That night we camped at Honeymoon Pool, which was a really nice campsite
• By mistake Matt chucked all his clothes in a big skip rubbish bin that smelt of something that had died. He promptly had to jump in and get them back.
• Abseiling at the quarry was short but sweet as we had to make a school visit for a camp taking place in a few weeks time.
• Lots of technical stuff to remember with abseiling.
• Anna hadn't abseiled in a while so was a tad shaky at the top!
• Matt, Anna, Carly and I went on the school visit,but managed to squeeze in a trip to Woolworths for some apricot slice.
• And that is a whistle stop tour of our training week. From here we entered in the misty realms of term one.