October has been Wicked Fun at Mungalli

October has been pretty awesome, if you have been following the Facebook page you will see that we have had some pretty cool schools visiting.
We managed to keep nearly up to date with the Facebook page but life has been so fun and hectic we have barley had time to blog about these schools.

These are the schools that have recently spent time at Camp Mungalli.

Gilroy this school came to Mungalli Falls to work on their Leadership skills, they spend some time working on personal challenges and they also took time out to work with the Mungalli staff.   I am proud of  some of their leadership skills, as they took part in some on site quick problem solving techniques to enable them to still do the Landslide.

Our Lady of Sacred Heart (OLSH) were a pretty amazing group, they were here during a time that Frankie was sightly ill and I loved the care and compassion that these school children showed.

This week we also had a small group from Cairns Adventist they ran around conquering a lot of challenges and activities with various activity staff.  We sadly were unable to get photo of this group.

Ryan Catholic school had there Year 12 Leadership camp here, this was run by Alistair from the school and he has a very organised well run program that works well fro everyone involved.  Mungalli always loves the year 12 camp as the group has a very formal dinner on the last night.  This year is was slightly wet but I don't believe it dampened the mood.  The group looked amazing. 

Whilst this school was here we also had a day visit from one an International school.  This made for an interesting day, as we had about 500 people on site for Breakfast and Dinner.  Whilst this day trip was here we tried to achieve as much as possible, the Mungalli Staff had group sizes of 40 to look after with the assistance from some Japanese staff.  In the photo you will see Hiro one of our main Japanese employees and he is surrounded by Japanese students.

Biboohra were only here last week and these guys were easy to look after, a small group which is always a pleasure as Mungalli Staff have the opportunity to really engage with the group.  We had some pretty cool fun with this school.

Holy Cross also came to Mungalli at the end of October, we done some classic activities working on the team building skills, developing their archery techniques, they conquered the Obstacle and of course they experienced the Landslide.  This school over came some unique challenges on the camp whilst they were at Mungalli and we cannot wait to have this school back next year.

Live at Mungalli

A couple of weeks have passed since I updated the blog page, I have only managed to update the Facebook page but never  made the blog.

Therefore what has been happening at Mungalli... Well Mungalli has been pretty hectic we had a window of sunshine it feels like and we have seen a lot of groups.

This is some of the groups that have been at Mungalli.

Dingo State School
They traveled far, they even got the opportunity to fly to Townsville making this camp experience a little bit more special with this being the first time for some people in an airplane.   Whilst at Mungalli Falls Dingo state school achieved a lot of Mungalli activities, they also went sight seeing and I believe they had a barbecue on the Esplanade.

Whiterock

This school came and we had some fun, taking part in various activities and I wonder which activity was their favorite.

Edge Hill SS

This school came and pulled off 100 children learning CPR as well as taking part in other Mungalli challenges.  Achieving the CPR is really cool and they should all be very proud.  

St Francis Ayr

This school also stayed for a whole week, hiking to Nandroya fall, panning for gold, canoeing as well as some Mungalli challenges.  This school was busy all week driving around the tablelands exploring so many unique elements of the tablelands.

Aitkenvale

This school stayed three days, nearly everyone achieved the abseiling which is fantastic to see.  We also conquered some other on site activities.

Whitfield SS

This school divided their group into two camps which was pretty cool.  These are the groups photos

This is the first group.

This is the second group.

Last week

Last week was the busiest week in the year with about 400 students coming t Mungalli Falls.

First we had Ryan Catholic, this school comes to Mungalli twice a year, first camp of the year is the activity based camp.  They all do various activities, some run by Mungalli and others run by the school.  Next year this group will be back on the second camp of the year the leadership camp, so we will get to see them again which is great.
The weather was absolutely miserable but thankfully that did not hinder there fun.

Following Ryan we had OLHOC (Or Our Lady Help of Christian) These guys divided up into 8 different groups, doing everything from Boomerang to Tubing.  Sadly the Tubing was changed due to weather, this was not an issue though and everyone had a lot of fun on camp.

August at Mungalli Falls

Over August Mungalli falls has had 4 different schools visiting.  They were all amazing, and I have delayed posting about them all hoping that I would get the permission to post the photo.  Sadly that has not happened yet, so I need to continue without the photo.

Mt Garnett came to Mungalli at the beginning of the week, stay 3days and left on the Wednesday.  They all claimed they were going to go to school the next day, but I don't believe them.  We did have a lot of fun looking after this group, they were a smaller school which really enables us to get a chance to engage with everyone.   The school was fun, and relaxed which is a blessing.  

St Margaret Marys were the  next school here, they arrived the same week as Mt Garnett they were a bigger all girls school.  I think there was a higher level of all participation with the all girls school then some mixed schools.  During their stay we all took part in some of the core activities of Mungalli Falls, Such as the Team build, Obstacle and landslide being just a few.  

Townsville Central

This school tried to do everything and I think they managed it.  Fishing, canoeing, abseiling plus the onsite activities such as Obstacle.

This school was fun, great students easy days.  The canoeing and fishing was a full day off site, I don't believe many fish were caught but everyone had fun.

Cranbrook 

This school was here the same time as Townsville Central, they also tried to do nearly all activities, they had a day canoeing, they achieved the abseiling and the onsite activities.  In the evening we accompanied some of them down to the glow worms, these are fascinating creatures.  We enjoyed the company of this school and I hope they come back for the full camp next year.

Mareeba SS

Last week we had this school in, we focused on the onsite activities juggling this schools hopes with one other school.  The school was fun with only a few issues such as the weather turning on the last few days.  The weather turning did not affect the energy of the group, everyone still took part in all activities and loved playing in the mud at the Obstacle course.

                                                                                    Townsville South & Woodstock

These guys were cool, having two schools combine for camp was great to see.  These schools spent some time with Clark on the abseil and they also did some other pretty cool activities when they were here.  They got the opportunity to work with most activity staff, and we nearly got the chance to put them all to work on their last day when the bus failed to turn up.  

Machans Beach

Machans Beach visited last week, they absolutely rocked and it was great to see some of them returning for a second time to Mungalli.

We abseiled nearly all the school. which is a fantastic and I hope they are all very proud of their achievements.

Looking forward to seeing them again.

Schools in June

Mungalli Falls has been so hectic that we failed to update the blog and the face book page.  We are truly sorry about that one.
The schools that we have missed are Trinity Beach, Mossman, St Agustines Mossman and Caravonica.

Each school was amazing and we hope they had a fab time with us at Mungalli Falls.

Mossman took part in First Aid training, so we can safely say everyone that attended that camp left with an Applied first aid certificate.  Now that is cool.

St Augustines Mossman were the first school to try out the new obstacle on the obstacle course.

The riverside slide, and yes you will get extremely muddy now.








Lastly we had Caravonica they were awesome, great school and we still have some fond memories of this school.

Redlynch

Redlynch visited us last week coming in two different groups which was cool.  This photo was from the second group and this is their sensible photo, and the only tie they were sensible.  It was a wicked week with the school lots went on.

St Francis Xavier

St Francis Xavier visited Mungalli near the end of May, we had such a fantastic time.  The weather has also changed at Mungalli so now we have left the wet season really helping camp enthusiasm.

Annandale SS

Annandale SS where here a few weeks ago and not only did they come and do the best activities this school was the first school this year to really experience any blue sky and sunshine.  It was such a change from the last three months of rain and drizzle.
Everyone in the school was amazing and they had a fantastic attitude taking part in all activities.   Even though we are sadly unable to post a photo of this school they were a lot of Fun and maybe some from this school will join the Mungalli Facebook page and post their own photos.

Can't wait to see these guys again.

St Clares Tully

St Clare's from Tully came to Mungalli a little while ago, and enjoyed the Mungalli Experience for a couple of days.  We had a lot of fun taking part in various activities such as the Abseiling and Landslide just to name a few.  We even had the opportunity to use the Helmet cam on the abseil site.  At the moment we still plan to cut and splice this video together to post on Facebook.    This school was so much fun even if they did bring the Tully rain with them.   We can not wait to see them next year.

St Teresa's

We had an excellent time with school, they were a lot of fun and we were able to play with the Helmet cam so we have some new footage of the Landslide which is currently on the display at the restaurant.

This school took part in some of the coolest activities, we even checked out the glow worms.
They were a lot of fun due to their enthusiasm and energy, which is a perfect recipe for a fantastic camp at Mungalli.
With this school being a local school I hope to see some of them again soon.

Annandale CC

We have been having so much fun at Mungalli we have barley had time to keep up with the Blog and Facebook.

Annandale was hear only a few weeks ago and we had an excellent time.  One day was incredibly packed but we still manged to achieve everything.  Most people took part in the Abseiling which is great to see.
The weather at the time was still treacherous but we love to see that this never stops anyone having fun.
Hope to see this school again soon.

William Ross

 William Ross came to Mungalli straight after the easter break, the weather has slowly been improving which meant that William Ross enjoyed a couple of clear moments.  This group was also the first group that tried out the new Abseiling demo site.  Everyone from the school took part in the abseiling with is great to see, our new site was designed to assist in the transfer of skills from practice to the real thing.  Hopefully reducing the intimidating factor of the scary cliff.  The outcome from William Ross demonstrated that this new site could be the attributing factor to their success or the group really was that amazing that everyone overcame their fears with more ease.

William Ross are a fantastic group, great attitude and full participation they also do some interesting school run activities such as the Huka and the amazing race.
I hope everyone enjoyed themselves and I can't wait to meet next years group.

Kirwan SHS

Just before the easter Holidays we had Kirwan here, and what a week it was.  The week was excellent the rain was abysmal, solid non stop rain for the duration of the camp.  To be honest there was a couple of hours a day that was not so tragic, although this didn't stop the teachers wading around in gum boots for the duration of the camp.  Luckily though the  first evening was clear enough for the group to do their night Orienteering.  Altogether it was a great week, with great students.  Every year Kirwan brings some older students  to be leaders and this year we had some fantastic leaders.   I will look forward to seeing some of the younger students back as leaders when it is their time.

At this point in time we have no photo's of Kirwan SHS but I hope that maybe some of them will become fans on the Facebook page and post some photos of their own.

Mungalli Falls Schools

This year we have already had a collection of schools and I apologize for not writing sooner.
The schools who have visited and had an amazing time are:
All Souls - A fantastic group who take part in every activity and have an excellent time and are always fond in our memories.  We hope to be able to post a photo of them soon.
Good Council - Have a staggered camp, and I fell the second camp lucked out a little on the weather.  Altogether is was a fantastic experience.
Marian - I wish I had a photo of this school but sadly the camera had a malfunction we have had the privilege of this school becoming Fans of Mungalli on Facebook.  So this makes us all incredibly happy.

Last week we had two schools in St Clares and St Gerards Majella

St Clares had a lot of energy and pushed through the activities even in the bad weather.   This photo above displays the group perfectly.  We accomplished a great deal whilst they were here, abseiling the vertical cliff at the falls, landslide actually we had so much to fit in we even did an evening archery.  We hope they have all recovered from their time here at Mungalli and we hope to see them again.

St Gerards Majella experienced some heavy rain, but this down pour did not affect their enthusiasm.  The days at Mungalli were packed full of fantastic activities, enabling them to concur some of the best activities. This group has a lot to be proud of from their time here at Mungalli, such as their abseiling skills.  St Gerards Majella we look forward to seeing you next year.

2010 at Mungalli Falls

Well everyone is excited at Mungalli falls as the new school year has just started and we are all getting ready for the groups this year.

Over the Christmas break we had the pleasure of having our international schools, who are a lot of fun.  Atherton After School Care came out for a whole day of activities with the Japanese students staying well into the evening dancing to an Australian bush dance.  A lot of fun was had by all we even started to play with the new GoPro camera recording the impact of the water landings, such as Land slide and the Flying fox.
We had some students who stayed with local farms, experiencing a true Aussie Experience.

The festive season has been fun and now we are ready for new adventures for this year.  Hopefully developing more activities.