Surfing

 Day 1-

 Today we started our surfing program. The surfing program is one of the acctivitys I had been looking foward to for the whole camp.

  We started the day at meeting up with our surf instructors, Luke and Max. We were very prevliged to have Max as a surfing instructor because he had just come back from a national compition and was apparently one of the best Junior surfers in Australia.

  Imedediatly as soon as we visited the beach we knew we were going to have an amazing time just by looking at the waves. The waves were big biut everyone was prepared. But before we got to jump into the ater imediatly we had to get a saftey check. Everyone was very anxious and fidgety, we all just wanted to jump into the water!

  After our saftey check everyone jumped into the water and started surfing. At first I found it very difficult to get up. My board was very slippery and I didnt really have very good technique. But after a while I picked it up.

 When we were about half way through our surfing the waves started picking the technique of standing up. I was extremly happy with my self and I kept on trying this time trying to turn throughout the rest of the day. Although this didnt work for me. I was very happy I picked up the basics of surfing.

Day 2-

On day 2 of our surfing experience, I got up out of bed excited for the upcoming acctivitys. Knowing that we would be off to the beach and surfing on some waves.

  We left Wambana at 8:45 in the morning. Everyone was pumped to go. We got our gear ready and we took off. Although half way through our ride we heard on the radio that someone in warooka had died in a car crash. Coinsidently on the way to Daly heads, where we were surfing during the day. This sidetracked us and ended up getting to the beach 30 minutes later. everyone was slightly disapointed, but we were still glad that we had arrived.

 As soon a s we arrived our instructors shortly followed. So we grabbed our gear and ran down to the beach. when we got to the beach we were told we had to do some streches. People were not too happy about this because everyone was pumped for surfing. But anyway we did our streches and then we took off into the beach. It was perfect conditions. The weather was perfect and the waves were amazing. Everyone couldnt wait!

  Once we settled in and started surfing. I was struggling on the board. I obviously had lost my technique from the preious day. But soon later I picked it up.

  We kept on surfing with breaks in between all the way till 3 o'clock. Then the dissapointing time of the day had came. We had to pack up. Packing up was difficult but everyone was managed.

  In conclusion of the day. I had an amazing time. And from being a person who struggled to get onto the board, I tryed extremly hard and manged to get onto my board very easily. It was just an amzing feeling surfing today and has deffinetly been a highlight of my camp. I am really looking foward to next suday when I can test out my surfing skills once again.