Arataki Team Trip

We were all eager to get off the bendy bus. “Don’t slip over” said Ms Green as we run of the bus.

First we went on a breathtaking walk to the a little place where we looked for bugs. We used a object called a pooter, that's how we caught the bugs. One person looked for bugs and one person used that pooter to suck up the bugs. This keep the bugs safe from our hands.

Next we went to the hall to learn about the life cycle of a leaf. The Ranger told us about the life cycle of a leaf. This is what happens. So water and carbon dioxide goes into the leaf and then sugar (not the sugar that we eat) and oxygen comes out. Then the leaf falls to the ground and then insects come along. Chew, chew, poo, poo, then the poo goes into the ground to make soil and the roots absorb it and then goes up the roots to the tree. It gives the tree power to grow.  I found it amazing that sugar moves through to other parts of plant and gives them power to grow.

Then we went on outstanding walk through the bush. We had to wash our shoes before we went to protect the kauri trees. We had no Ranger to guide us so we did not know where we were going.  All we had was this tiny map that did not tell us that much, it was confusing alright.

First we went on the road then soon after we knew that this was not the right way. So then we went back and went through the itsy-bitsy tunnel. It was very small. We found out that was the right way. Then we got stuck. There were two ways we could have gone, there was the ID track and the loop track. It took us about ten minutes to find out were we had to go and it was the loop track so then we went down it. It was a amazing walk. It blow my mind that this use to be a potato farm.

Arataki is a mind blowing place. I learnt  about how nature recycles and I highly recommend going there.