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.