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