We were there and we were just starting to cross the stream for the first time. it was hard to belive that this small little stream was te big rivermouth that opened onto the beach of wainui beach. I was wearing gumboots so I just waddled through the water to the other side to wait and watch the other people with shoes on trying to jump across with no sucsess they were throwing there bags across and one girl threw their bag into the water and someone reached in and grabed it just in time to stop it floating down the river some people weere wadding across even though they were wearing shoes. once everyone had come across we startred walking.
A few hills later we stoped for a quick brain break I sat by the river with Bramm, Olly, jaxon, Arthur and some other people. After that we walked for another 30 min later we came to a paddock with a few mother cows only one of them didn't have a calf and she was as pregnant as a cow could get as we walked past a group of bushs we all notised a dead calf lying on the grass then its ear twiched and we realized it was sleeping. Its tail was swishing around on the grass as well. we crept past it and the other cows and calfs mooed happily as we closed the gate behind us.
We continued to walk and walk and walk and slowly everyone started to get tired. then we saw it the end of the hamanatua stream it seamed to just melt into the ground like a ice cream. We stoped on the top of a hill to have lunch and admire the veiw it was amazing on one side of the valley there were more pregnant cows and a few little newborne calfs and on the other side there was a pond with a few ducklings and their mother. Then before we knew it we were on the way home. Past the calfs through the purere trees across the stream and all the way back to school. I couldent wait to go for another walk.
