Trinaya and Ellie Chief Scout Adventurous Journey (Trinaya)

Chief Scout Rimu Award Adventurous Journey

by Trinaya Bharath

Day 1

• Ellie & I reached the den at 4:30. That's when the last of the food prep happened. Rummaging through the scout food then biking down to New World to buy something for breakfast the next day. 
• Tara & Maya reached the den. 
• After quick checks of the bike we explained the route. 
• We started in a single file line so we don't lose anyone. Ellie at the front and me at the back. We biked calmly for 25 mins till we were halfway through the Ara Harakeke pathway. By this time it was extremely dark. Ellie didn't have a torch so I went in the front. 
• 5 mins later, I noticed that there were only 3 people. Maya was way behind us. She had stopped and no one noticed.  So I went in the back again, Tara went beside Ellie to provide some light. 
• As we entered Pukerua bay, Maya’s bike started acting up. The pedals were jammed. The rest of us got off our bikes and spent 10 whole mins trying to fix it. We turned it upside down and tried spinning it. Suddenly it just started working again! 
• Soon we reached Pukerua bay den. We met Livvy, Maddie & Ruben there. 
• After getting all our things inside, we sat down together and looked through oceans badge things. Watched videos about deep-sea trawling and questions about how that was bad. E.t.c
• By this time it was 8ish pm. The rest of the night was spent playing cards and chilling

Day 2

• We woke up to maddie’s stunning alarm blaring at 6am.(note the sarcasm)
• At 6 30 was when we actually started getting up. By 7 30 breakfast was finished. 
• During the tidy up, everyone was kinda slacking but since we have a small amount of people, we still got things done quite quickly. 
• Our plan was to start from Puk Bay at 8 and at we were exactly on schedule. I was in the front and livvy was in the back. Every few minutes, i would check to make sure i could see Livvy so we didn't lose anybody.
• Unfortunately parkrun was on at the same time so we had to navigate through a bunch of runners. But I saw my dad!
• We biked calmly without any problems for the next hour until we reached the lighthouse cinema. We were were 45 mins early. We learned that that it only takes and hour to bike to the cinema. In our spare time we were talking and made a stop at the airy to buy snacks for the movie. At 10:15 we were allowed inside so theatre so we went and made ourselves comfy. A couple mins later we saw kirsten’s family and Cath and Amelia.
• The movie was pretty good. Ellie fell asleep near the end. ;p
• The bike ride back was way faster. I think everyone was rejuvenated after the movie.
• We reached the den around 1:40. After 15 mins on relaxing, me, Ellie, Tara & Maya grabbed some gloves, paper bags, a grabber thing and we set off to the beach. For about an hour we walked on the sand picking up all the rubbish we could see. There was a surprisingly large amount of plastic there. We managed to fill up both the bags to the brim. 
• Afterwards, maddie taught some level five biking skill things.
• Now we had a lot of free time. I learned that we should have probably planned a few more things. In the middle we helped the leaders rig/derig boats.
• Then we made dinner and watched another movie. 
• The leaders then called us for a review. 
• We ended up changing some of the plans for 
• As we were about to go to sleep, Derrick came in and started spraying us with red, glitter hairspray. My scalp was sticky and red was 2 WHOLE DAYS after that!

What was hard and what could have been better

• Finding dairy free food. 
• Over-buying food 
• Lots of free time
• Could have done more biking

What went well

• Had all equipment
• Finished oceans badge
• Twas Fun
• Level 5 biking badge

Planning

• Emailing lighthouse cinema - Trinaya
• Oceans Badge - Ellie
• Food - Trinaya & Ellie
• Gear list - Trinaya & Ellie
• Letter - Trinaya & Ellie

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