Swimming in Picton

Splash.
Me, Tyler, Hannah, Johnny and Huntah jumped into the water. We swam for what felt like forever .
We finally got to the pontoon to jump off. 
When we dived to the bottom we could see some star fish. They were massive. I dived down and got one. I threw it up onto the pontoon .We all thought it looked so cool. We put it back in but it landed upside down .Hannah dived down and put it right side up again.
We dived down to get other one when Johnny said the anchor was moving. We looked over to it.
It was a sting ray. We scrambled back to shore. It was so scary!

2015 Triathlon Writing

Bang! Thunder and ... Sprint!
The cap gun exploded!
As we came onto the road, the excitement wore off. We sprinted away down the road. I was so relieved when I finally got to Tyler. I tagged him and he shot off like a  missile.
But I knew the hard part was yet to come; 78 metres of hard out swimming. Tyler came off the road in 3rd place.
He tagged me but the Kimbolton team was right behind us. I sprinted to the pool and hopped in. I swam and swam right to the right end.
Tyler and I sprinted to the finish line. We came 3rd!

my acrostic poem

9.2.2015
w.a.l.t write acrostic poem


Dylan is who i am

You would always catch a fish with me

Like fly fishing

An fishing fanatic

Never miss the bite

George

It’s summer and the lizards are sun bathing while the snakes slither out of the way. Me and my old friend George are on our motorbike driving to summer hill. Summer hill is a trek on George Mountain. George, my friend, is a croc wrestler so if we run into any crocs he can wrestle it for us. I met George at croc camp. I was his stunt double. I had to jump into the croc infested water and he would jump in and save me. Now for me I am an exterminator so I will be good with snakes.

So back to the story. We hit the brakes and skidded into the car park. We parked our bikes and got ready to start hiking. We had a look at the map.

“We are here at the car park and the beach is a two day hike”.

We started to climb up the steep hills. They were sandy with rocks and grasses dotted all over the hills. The higher we got the steeper the hills became. We came to a cliff. We found the climbing rope. We had to put on bite proof gloves and boots incase there were snakes and scorpions in the crevices.

I started to climb up the cliff. About half way up I was stung by a scorpion but the bite proof gloves saved me.

Finally I got to the top. George jumped into the harness and started to climb up the cliff. When he got to the top , we looked around. There were two trails that both led to the hut. One triail went through the bush and jungle and the other was more sand and cliffs. We sat down and had some to eat and drink. We decided to take the bush track. It was 2 pm and we had one hour to get to the hut .

We got up and set off. It was about half past 2 when we came to a creek.

It was the end of the wet season so the creek had turned into a swamp. We looked through our bags and found a machete each. We cut down some long bamboo and tied them together to make a bridge. George went first. He made it over. I started to cross but ...

Splash ... Crash ... Smash ... The croc had tried to attack me.

The bridge broke and I went flailing into the water. As I swam to shore George jumped in and wrestled the croc. We both came out of the water panting. We put on some new clothes, I thanked George and we set off again still feeling exhausted.

When we got to the hut we made a plan. We had two hours until it got dark. I went to catch two fish and George set up the hut. I went down to the pond and caught two big tiger fish. When I got back George had set up the bunks, got the firewood and a log to sit on.The fire was going and the billy was cracking over it. We poured some coffee into some cups and skewered the fish and put it over the fire. We sat and talked for a while, then went to bed knowing we had big challenge ahead of us.

I got up early and got the fire going and caught two catfish. We had breakfast and off again.

When we got to the river we put on our helmets and wetsuits. We got in the kayaks and paddled away.

We paddled through some slow brown water.

Just before we came to a corner the water got faster and faster. We turned the corner. There were.rapids for as far as the eye could see.

We swerved and dived off mini and water falls. For six hours we were in the rapids. Finally we came to some flat water but the noise was even louder. Then it hit me. There was a waterfall!

I froze with fear. George saw I wasn’t moving. He dived into the water and paddled my kayak to shore.

I thanked George and we set off down Summer hill creek.

We got to the hut and did the same thing. II caught two BIG trout .

We had dinner and went to sleep. At 3 o’clock in the morning George woke me up. The door was open and a pig had got in.

George jumped off the bunk bed and did a belly flop on the pig. He grabbed the pig by the back legs and hauled it outside. He came back inside.

We got dressed. With the pig on the fire and smoke sailing into the air we got ready to start the day. We ate the pig and we set off.

Soon we came to a sugarcane field. About half way through the sugarcane George started to scream. He had been bitten by a king brown snake.

I called the emergency helicopter. In 10 minutes it arrived and took as to a hospital.

I didn’t see George for two weeks.

He came back limping with a peg leg. He had been scarred for life but said he couldn’t wait for the next adventure!

By Dylan

Jonah Lomu

Let me tell you a little abut my inspiration ... Jonah Lomu

In 1975 Jonah was born. He later lived with his aunt and uncle in Tonga. In 1988 Jonah started attending Wesley College and was about to embark on a remarkable life. I find it interesting that he had to move from New Zealand to Tonga. He came back to New Zealand to go to secondary school and to play rugby.

He worked his way from a little 5 year old  playing on Saturday morning all the way to the All Blacks.
The first provincial side he played for was Counties Manakau. He started as a forward because of his size and weight but then he decided to try a game in the backs as a wing because he was a good sprinter and was very powerful. This is where he stayed.
Jonah Lomu played for three super 15 teams; the Hurricanes, Chiefs and the Blues.
In 1994 Jonah joined  the All Blacks. At 19 years old he was the youngest ever to do this.
I feel inspired by Jonah Lomu because he used the skills he developed as a little five year old to play rugby and stayed playing it for all of his years. I have started as a forward and have now moved to the wing as Jonah Lomu did.

Sadly he had a kidney disease which ended his  rugby career. In early 2005 he had a kidney transplant. Later that year he returned to the field. Even a half fit Jonah was hard to stop. Jonah played his come back game in Twickenham against Wales. Jonah returned to the filed playing for North Harbour.
He had all of these new challenges thrown at him and he kept on trying to return to rugby. He really likes rugby just like me.

rugby rport

It's Saturday morning time for rugby and excitement. Get out of bed it's 6.clock.Get your gear. Get dressed and get in the car. Time for breakfast on the run.

4 games 6 teams and only one winner. That's right it's the play offs. we came in as the best team of the season. One loss to west cost, Tyler and Johnny's team. We played in the play off's it was win,win,win,win to us to end the season as the best of the best. James played for the almighty feilding reps. One loss and one tie but we came out on top. The fielding reps had done it again for another year.

Rugby - vocab enrichment

It's Saturday ... time for a back breaking, skull crushing, leg smashing game of rugby. It was like lightening going through my veins. The gut game of rugby was finished.