Rainforest Express

Freezing! Woweez!! The Intermediate department blasted off to the Rainforest Express, by bus. Because the weather was unbelievably freezing, we were able to bring with us warm and cosy clothes. As we left to catch the massive bus, I felt the coldness all ready. It was like the breeze touching my cheek with sprinkles of dust. While everyone hopped into the bus, the volume increased more as we were chattering about how extreme the Rainforest Express would be.


As we arrived at the Waitakere Rangers, I was smiling with joy because of how beautiful the veiw was. I had never seen such an astonishing veiw that (Auckland) New Zealand had.
Swishhhhhhh... Soon, the door of the bus had soon shut, as we jumped out of it. When we reached the ground, it was as mucky as coloured paint. Finally, we gathered together in the reception, where we met Kathy and Andy, who were the two train drivers, and our tour guides. Kathy told us many facts about the dams, the (Rainforest Express) train, the tunnels, and especially the water supplies.


Chugger... Chugger... ChooChoo...
Suddenly the train had budged. As we went into the magnificent tunnels, we were amazed by the fascinating wetas, but we weren't amazed by the frightning spiders, because of how large they were. Going into the tunnels was just like going into my own nightmare.


Wow...
As we chugged along the bridge, we stopped to see the prettiest veiw, and it was a few metres down from where we were. We also had to stop to take photos of us in the train and of the beautiful veiw.
Suddenly, we lurched again. We had then reached another tunnel where we were able to spot a lot of bright glow worms.

Soon, we had reached the eating area, but it wasn’t time to eat yet. We were there to have a look at the massive dam. It was a very long way to get to the dam, but that was okay for us to do some excising. As we were at the dam, we could see the water, a lot of houses, and how high we were compared to how low it was on the ground.

Finally, we met together at the eating area, where we had to eat, obviously.
Then it was time to go back to school. We had to reverse back to the same place that we were, a few hours ago, which was the reception, of course.

Yeah!!
As we all came back to School, we all told everyone how cool that the Waitakere Rangers was, and that it was a great opportunity for us to be there. I loved that trip. One day I’ll be their, with my family or with my friends.

This work was completed by:
Theresa Filipo