Northeren Beaches

Northern Beaches came to Mungalli at the End of November, with only a small number of the students making it in the end. The advantage to this was we had a fantastic time, there was no rushing and I remember a fantastic afternoon Abseiling with them all. I believe some of them even went down the cliff around 8 times, and that was including the teachers. They were a great school and I look will look forward to seeing them again next year.

Giru & St Clare's

It was great to see this school again this year rather than waiting another year. This meant that some of them came last year, but this did not affect the fun we had doing activities. The groups all done different things depending on whether they had been to Mungalli before, we even fitted in a few more.

Giru & St Clare’s spent yesterday touring around the Tablelands and checking out the Crocs at Innisfail, pretty exciting stuff being near these dangerous animals.



These schools were the last schools to have the company of Matt, and the last cheeky cheeky dance routine. He will be truly missed.

Cardwell

Cardwell squeezed in a two day camp last week just at the end, they were looked after predominately by Clark and Tina, and done the wet muddy activities that everyone loves as well as perfecting their Archery Skills.

This school was great to see and I hope they come back next year, I wish I had a chance to spent a little more time with them but I did get an opportunity to take them to the glow worms. They had a fantastic night for it, the right level of darkness that enable you to see nearly all of them. Mind you the Waterfall is also magnificent from the bottom and fun to see under controlled torch lights.

Alligator Creek

This school last week was excellent, they also stayed all week which is great for us as we get to know them all a little better.


With one of those weeks at Mungalli Falls where you experience the true essence of a Rain Forest, a week of perpetual rain. This did not affect any of their enthusiasm for the week. Alligator creek also done Apply First aid with us at Mungalli, scheduling in some First aid session followed up by role play scenarios out on the field to test their skills; they all done amazingly well.

Having this school at Mungalli Falls was fantastic, they travelled for a day, explored this region and headed home after 6 days being out on the road away from home. I hope that this school will send in some photos as I know they took some amazing shots.

Kuranda College

Last week was reasonably busy with three schools in, Kuranda College, Alligator Creek and Cardwell.




Kuranda College came at the beginning of the week, half of them came to Mungalli and half went to Chillagoe, were they explored the caves and camped out under the stars. I believe they had a fantastic week and experienced glorious days. On the other hand the Kuranda College group at Mungalli experienced Mungalli in the wet. This is still a lot of fun, but you have to be prepared for the wet weather. The Kuranda school at Mungalli did some cool activities, abseiling, archery, Obstacle team build and landslide.

Holy Cross

This school left on Friday, and I have to confess I have not had much time to put up their photo till now, the school I hope had a fantastic time and the weather turned on the last day. They were the only ones here when the rain started but as you can see from their photo they all seemed to still be having fun, even if they were hiding in the restaurant.


They were a cool bunch, a lot of fun and they should be currently choosing their leaders for next year.



Currently we have two schools here, Kuranda college and Alligator Creek school; who rocked up to Mungalli at 0530!!! In the morning it was crazy. Mind you they did drive through the night, whilst Kuranda floated in later that day. Currently we have had a fair amount of rain but nothing that will hinder the fun.

Garbutt

Garbutt has been here nearly all week and today they leave.  Some of them have been here before, last year they done the wet weather abseiling but this year we all got to do the waterfall site.  Well those that wanted to did the abseiling.

Kennedy

Kennedy, what a school they only stayed overnight at Mungalli as they had already spent a night with the wild animals, lions and elephants at Mareeba. I don’t think Mungalli had the same strange noises whilst they tried to sleep, but I did hear odd noises and screams out of them when we done the activities. Kennedy only had the chance to do a couple of activities so we got to do the wet & muddy ones, zooming down the landslide and covering ourselves in the smelliest mud ever on the obstacle course.

St Johns

They had three days at Mungalli Falls, and I can’t believe I haven’t had a chance to talk about them until now. The school spent most of their time with Matt doing various activities, so I am not sure which one was their favourite.

Friday - 30/10/09

Friday morning was still rainy and everyone had fun. Middlemount headed off pretty early as they had a long journey a head of them, whilst Victoria had one more session of Activities.


The last morning, I took the younger grade for abseiling up on the blue line of Mungalli. It had been so long since I was out there the last entry was in March this year. So was when the last big rain occurred at Mungalli. The morning was pretty special as the location is amazing, from that abseil site we can see all of Mungalli. We watched the clouds form in the valley then as they passed us on the hill the clouds released the water.

The morning was wet and fun.

Victoria Plantation & Middlemount

The last few days have been fun, and maybe just a little wet. Victoria arrived on Wednesday when the weather turned to rain but we have still had a great time. Admittedly we rescheduled a few of the activities today so the real wet activities happened with the rain.
Middlemount on the other hand had a glorious day at Frankland Island basking in the sun.

Tomorrow everyone leaves Middlemount has a full on drive, so they are stopping at some unique spots on the way such as Mamu. Whilst Victoria we are doing one more session of activities before everyone leave.

Middlemount

Middlemount arrived Sunday night after a very long day on a bus.  The group is very excited and seem full of energy.  Yesterday we started the Mungalli falls activities, abseiling, landslide, obstacle and team build. 
This school is going to be here all week, and they are even going to Franklin Island whislt they are here.

Today looks set to be another fantastic day, beautiful weather to be outdoors so I best go and get ready for the morning sessions.

Ryan's formal

The formal dinner was last night, everyone was paired up and looking glamorous. Photos were taken on the way into the formal dinner and some more were taken during the event.


I am hoping that I will be emailed one or two photos to place on the blog site.

Ryan leave today, they are currently having their last meeting and then they will depart.

Ryan

Yesterday we had the arrival of Ryan's leadership camp.




This is the second camp Ryan has at Mungalli falls in a year, this one is dedicated to leadership.



Tomorrow is the big day for them with a special formal dinner on the last night. I always enjoy the excitement in the preparation for the formal dinner, Sue in the kitchen prepares a special dinner for the school, the whole event is engulfing.

Gilroy Leadership camp

Gilroy Leaders!

They were a great bunch; I hope they remember what they learnt about themselves whilst they were here. 

I probably won't miss the air horn from this morning, but I hope they got to watch Rambo on their way home.

Till next time

Wulguru

What a week for Wulguru.
Five fun packed days at camp.  This is them this morning just before they left.









I could not resist uploading a picture of the Canoeing day for Wulguru.   


This day for me will be remembered for a while and for that reason I can not help blogging this photo.   Thankfully the site location is beautiful, the weather gorgeous and Crazy Clark aided in all the dramas of the day.


So these photos are for Wulguru. I hope they remember that the peace sign is a requirement of Archery and using more than two fingers to pull that string back, could endanger your other fingers.

Kirwan SS

Kirwan sadly left yesterday, I say sadly because due to other activities I was unable to say goodbye and tell them how fantastic they had been. The school had an amazing time, perfect weather fantastic attitude which makes for an awesome experience. Hopefully the school will read this and see that we loved having them at Mungalli falls and cannot wait to see them again.
Some of their photos will be added to the slide show, and I hope they are able to spot themselves. Kirwan your group was great, they achieved everything and thy should be very proud of themselves.

Heatley

Heatley left on Friday and sadly we were never able to get a school photo, but looking through the camera I did find this one of the last group Abseiling with Clark.

Hopefully next time we see them we will be able to get more photos. Or maybe they will send some to us.

Today we are currently waiting for 2 schools, Kirwin and Wulguru, they will be here just after Lunch ready to start activities.

St Clare's

St Clare's wet muddy and dirty after an afternoon hanging out at the team build and obstacle site. Currently standing under the Tree house that Clark is in the process of building, so I hope when it is finished it will be appreciated.

Look out for St Clare's photos being added to the slide show.

Farm Stay

This morning Uenogaka all arrived back from their farm stay families.

I believe they all enjoyed themselves as I watched farmers exchanging presents with the group and family photos being taken.

Heatley

Heatley SS arrived yesterday, they spent their afternoon doing activities up at the lodges then later after dinner Mat and Hilary accompanied them all down to the Glow worms. It was a beautiful night, some of them saw fire flies too. The Glow worms are always amazing to see.

Today we are starting Heatley's activities with Mungalli Staff, Abseiling, Team Build, Canoeing and Landsliding. These are some wicked activities so the next few days will be a lot of fun.

Later today I am looking out for St Clare's as they will also be arriving for 3 fun filled days, more about them later when I meet them.

Uenogaoka HS farm stay

What a beautiful morning.

Not only is the weather at Mungalli Falls still amazing but we currently have 380 students from Japan here waiting to experience a true Australian farm experience.
Over the next few days they will live with various families over the tablelands, engulfing themselves with Australian culture and nature.
This is a fantastic opportunity for Japanese students. I can't wait to hear how they all got on.

Thank you letters

Clark, Matt and Hilary all recently had a chance to read through the thank you letter from Tully SHS, the school visited Mungalli as a day excurtion partaking in Abseiling & Obstacle course.
We all agree that it was fantastic getting a chance to read these letters, and hear the groups opionion of the staff and the activities. So I have decided to upload some of the comments from the group.

I liked the way Clark was patient and telling jokes. ( Kris, Tully SHS 09)

I appreciate how Hilary taught us to abseil and got us to the bottom safely. I really enjoyed the obstacle course and raft building because of Matt's sense of humour. (Alistair, Tully SHS 09)

The thing what I thought were most enjoyable were the food, abseiling, flying fox and the james bond rope (James, Tully SHS 09)

Matt was very funny, he made the obstacle course fun. Matt had an awesome accent too. Hilary made abseilnig less scary for me... (Adrianna, Tully SHS 09)

Thanks Tully SHS, we look forward to see you again

Mungalli Falls

Welcome to Mungalli Falls blog.


Due to our love of school camps, and the joy we have watching people combat various challenges at Mungalli Falls we have decide to start this blog. Helping us and others follow the life and fun at Mungalli Falls.
During the life of Mungalli Falls blog, we hope to post photos and personal comments from anyone who has experienced a camp at Mungalli Falls.