This weekend may have been one of the best I’ve had in a long time.
This Saturday Jack, Nate and I decided we would kayak across the river and adventure the fellow lands. The day started off around 10:30 am when I contacted Jack on Facebook asking him if he’s going to come into town. He said he was going to meet at my house in about 10 minutes. We had already planned to go kayaking the only problem was, neither of us owned a kayak. We realised this and decided to grab our good mate Nate. We skated to Nate’s house and knocked on his door, Nate was real happy we came. He asked his parents if we could use their kayak, Nate’s parents were very kind and let us use it for the day and even dropped it off down where we put it in.
After about 30 minutes of riding down to where we were putting the kayak in we eventually arrived. Nate’s mum was waiting there already, which makes sense as we were on a skateboard and she was in a car. We unloaded the kayak off the back of the ute and took our shoes off and put them in the car. We figured out how 3 of us were going to fit on a 1 person kayak and finally made a plan which worked. I was at the front as I suck at rowing and Jack was at the back because he was heaviest this left Nate stuck in the middle having to do all the work. It didn’t take us long to get across only about 5 or 10 minutes. We pulled the kayak up on the beach and looked to where we could trek.
Our adventure started at the very moment we saw some kind of little lake in the middle of some small bushes. We were headed towards it and then suddenly Jack dropped, he had fallen into water. This water wasn’t just any water either it was full of mosquito lave. As soon as we realised this we sprinted out of the area to a nearby old tree. The tree was very sketchy yet Jack had the impression he could climb it. To my surprise Jack made it to almost the very top of the tree.
In the mean time Nate and I found someone‘s old T-shirt and decided to make shoes out of it as there were many double g’s. After figuring out how to make a shoe properly and half decent, Nate and I got up and high fived. After the high five we suddenly heard Jack saying ‘Can someone help?’ Jack had got to the top of the tree but the branch he needed to step on to get down was about to snap. There was no way we could have possibly helped Jack get out so we had to tell him to risk it. Jack got out of the tree without even a scratch which was great, but not very exciting. We trekked a little further, this is when we found a little path leading up a mountain.
We made our way over to the path at this point there were a lot of double g’s but Nate and I had a bit less trouble than Jack as we had made our shoes. The track went all the way up to the very top of a hill. This hill took us about 20 minutes to get to the top which was probably one of the best views I’ve ever seen. Our view was perfect, You could see all of the town up to the horse ranch and all the way up to Red Bluff.
We walked on a little further down the track which was now downhill. The track just wouldn’t end so we decided to cut off and walk through bush to the ocean. After walking through bush for about 10 minutes we reached an amazing cliff side where we could see the entire ocean from. The view was amazing from here so we sat down for a while and talked. The wind was a lot stronger up where we were because of the altitude. We sat on some very sharp looking plants which were actually very comfortable. After sitting on the cliff side for about 10 minutes we decided to start walking back to the kayak.
We were walking down the track when we saw a tree sitting on a hill side all by itself with no other trees around we found this very cool and decided to walk to it. Once we reached the tree we looked at the view and started walking off. Just as we were walking off we heard Jack yell ‘Goat!’ The goats looked up at us with a very petrified look on their faces, they started to run and we decide to get on the hunt. We tried following the goats but lost them after 5 minutes. We were sad because we really wanted to catch a goat but missed our chance.
The day was carrying on as we walked back to the kayak and some very dark clouds came over top of us. We knew it was about to rain so we started to move faster down to the kayak. Unfortunately we were too slow and the rain caught us. It started to rain heavier and heavier but it was only for a short period of time around 5 or 6 minutes. The rain stopped and we started to walk a bit slower again. I then saw more goats which meant we could plan our attack this time. We planned that 2 of us would flank around the outside and one would charge through the middle. We sprinted at them and caught up to them we were about to grab one until we saw one just fall over. This goat didn’t fall over and hurt itself it faked dead which wasn’t the brightest idea. We were not here to harm the goats so we were very kind to it. We caught it and named it Gilbert. After making Jack run all the way back to the kayak to grab Nate’s phone to take a picture with we took a few pictures then let it go.
After this we headed back to the kayak, we were very happy and surprised that we caught one. We reached our kayak and set sail back across the river. We reached the other side and Nate’s mum was there ready to pick us up as we had already called from the other side of the river.
The day had almost ended and we were really tired we hung around the IGA with lots of food and drinks and chilled for a while. Then I had the sudden urge to climb a tree so we decided we would head to a big pine tree and climb to the top.
Getting to the top of the pine tree was really scary but worth the thrill. After this it was time to head home and rest so Nate rode home and I got a lift with Jack‘ mum. Jack wanted to sleep at mine for the night after he had finished work which was a good idea so we could head off early in the morning and do the day over again. So after Jack‘ night at work he walked over to my place. This is where things got interesting.
Jack arrived at my house and set the dogs off barking. I walked to the door and let him inside for the moment. I was playing Far Cry 3 for a bit (A video game). We mucked around on the game for a while and then decided to do something active so we went to play with the dogs. Later we came in and started reading the world‘s cringiest joke book. After laughing at these jokes,which were not even close to funny, I started to record Jack. After doing something stupid I made Jack laugh on camera and it was the funniest laugh ever. It sounded exactly like a car drifting which gave me the great idea to make an amazing meme.
An hour after trying to make the meme we had finally made it and sent it to a meme account which will hopefully post it and go viral. After this Jack and I were too tired to stay awake so we fell asleep.
The next day we woke pretty late, it was around 9:20 and the whole ‘early morning start’ thing had gone out the window. We messaged Nate who unfortunately couldn’t come today as he was heading somewhere with his family. So we decided to call Luke,. He was still asleep though and wouldn’t be awake for another hour or 2. After sitting in my room for a while thinking of what we were going to do Devlin called. Devlin is another one of my close mates. We picked the phone up and asked Dev if he would like to canoe across the river. He was happy to agree but yet again no-one owned a canoe. We met up with Devlin and asked if he had a canoe or kayak. Of course he didn’t which made things even better…
We rode down to the river and were thinking of swimming across but we really couldn’t be bothered. Then I realised my Granddad had a canoe which he would most likely let us borrow for the day as long as we looked after it. We walked up to where he lives and he was sitting outside.. We politely asked if we could borrow a canoe and he kindly let us.
We carried the canoe all the way down the the river from where he lives which isn’t too far but it was still quite tough.
After arriving at the river we all put life jackets on and set sail once again across the river. This time was a little easier as we actually had a canoe made for 3 people. We got across quickly and set foot on land and ran for the track we had gone up the day before. Instead of aiming directly for the track though we decided to head up another track. This one led us uphill for a long time and didn’t quite have the same view as the day before. From this point we could only see the town and all the way to the horse ranch but we couldn’t see the sea. We walked a little towards the sea and realised we may as well show Devlin the cool cliff face we found. After sitting there talking and thinking about things we headed off.
This time our main objective was to catch a goat. We stalked the mountain side for a while looking for a herd. Eventually I spotted some quite a fair way away so we had lots of time to plan our attack. This time it was thoroughly planned out and worked perfectly. We ended up catching 2 goats. To our surprise we had captured the exact same goat as the day before. This time he was lots calmer and friendlier. The other one we caught was feisty and wanted to butt us. After taking a few photos we let these 2 go together. We walked about 4 kilometres up river and found some cool places along the way but we were getting thirsty so decided to turn around. We walked back to the canoe and put our life jackets back on and set sail once again.
We had made it across the river without getting wet at all and also without drowning which was great. It took us half an hour to walk the canoe a huge 10 metres because of how tired we were. Jack started to get angry which was quite amusing. Eventually we started to put effort in and carried it almost halfway back to where we needed to go. After about 20 more minutes we arrived at our destination.
At this point we were extremely tired and needed a rest. So, after putting the canoe away and putting our shoes on, we started riding towards Devlin’s house.
Once there we walked inside and grabbed a huge glass of water. We laid back for a while playing guitar and then Jack and I decided to head home.
On the way home i decided to stop into the shops to grab some food to pig out on later. This then made Jack late and I felt pretty bad. We arrived at my house and Jack immediately had to go.
After this I was at home by myself and decided to play some BlackOps3 (Another video game). I was playing until I had the fantastic idea to write this amazing blog. If you reached the end of this post without skipping any, Thank you.
Here are 2 pictures of the goat we caught.
