On Wednesday the 20th February, Mullauna and Oberon (2B) went on our first expo!

We were driven to Yeerung River Bridge, where we prepared to leave. We stretched, worked out where we were going, put our heavy packs on and set off. We walked about 1km through the bush before we hit the beach. The beach was a lot of hard work. For every step we took forward, it felt like two backwards. We stopped for lunch and a well needed rest. We ate our sand filled lunch and set off for the home stretch. We made it to the marker and we all worked together to get the packs up the sand bank. We hiked about 1km up, over and under logs and trees (leftover from a storm earlier in the year) and we made it to Dock Inlet and our campsite! We set up the tents and Amelia and Georgia discovered that they brought extra tent pegs; but no tent pole! They ended up tying the tent to surrounding trees! We then all went for a swim in Dock Inlet. The water was really warm and the swim was exactly what we all really needed. We cooked our dinner with the trangias before washing up, doing reflection and heading to bed. Sadly, we didn’t get to see any stars or the sunset as it was cloudy all day. The boys all did a fantastic job of scaring all of us; several times.

After a night of not so good sleep, we got up at 6am, had breakfast and packed our packs again ready for the journey back. The trip back was easier than the trip up because we weren’t on sand. We walked along a power line track and made it back to our pick up spot. The second hike was 8km long. When we knew we were near the end of the track we all embraced the moment and walked the final part together! As we were preparing to get in the buses to go back to the campsite, one of the teachers saw a red bellied black snake and so we all had a look at the third poisonous snake in the world! In total we hiked 17km with heavy packs on. We were all really proud of ourselves and we all worked really well as a team and we can’t wait for our next expo!

By Rebecca - Mullauna College