Month: June 2022

The outdoor education program that I recently took part in was a very great experience in the Dwellingup bush. I did three different activities with my classmates, the activities were kayaking, bush cooking, and tree tops adventures. These activities were the ones our class had been focusing on during our lessons to help improve our skills before going on camp. The bus trip to Dwellingup took roughly 2 hours but there was multiple road works which helped to delay our arrival and bring up problems from moving to different activities.

The first activity that my group did on camp was kayaking, we didn’t have much time on the water as the road works delayed our arrival at the kayaking spot. The water was very cold that we’re kayaking in but fortunately I didn’t fall in, I did get splashed though when I seal launched from the stairs into the water. The capability I used in the kayaking was effective communication as we had to all communicate to get the most value out of the minimum amount of time we had to kayak.

The second activity we did was bush cooking. We had to make a wood set up for our fire in a campsite fireplace. My group cooked a sausage sizzle on the metal plate above the fire, we also cooked onions do go with the sausages. Overall, the meal we made was very scrumptious and I will make it again if I go camping. The capability that I used during the bush cooking was teamwork as all of us boys had to work together to prepare and cook the food. Each of us played a role in making the food for example cutting, cooking, cleaning up.

The last activity we did was tree top adventure. Tree top adventure is an obstacle in the trees and there were different levels of obstacles depending on our age and skill levels. Mitchell and I did the hardest levels at the start to prove how alpha we are, it was very challenging, but we got through it. The capabilities we used was resilience as I had to not give up during the obstacle course because there was no way down beside the end once you were up there.