church camp

Church Camp was awesome.... as usual. Every year gets better and better. The only annoying thing was that we didn't get to swim much. We went to swim on Saturday, but the lifeguards were in trouble. About seven of them had gone out to sea (within eyesight) in a rubber dingy to practise, when they felt they were being pulled out to sea. So one swam back and raised the alarm. A speed boat zoomed out to the rescue, but the wind was so strong that it flipped. Then its motor wouldn't go.

Twenty minutes later, a speedboat sped out to the rescue, and another boat went, too. They were on their way back with the rescued lifeguards and the boat that had flipped. Then a rescue helicopter came in. Some of the adults were screaming cause they thought it was going to land on the beach. But it swung over our heads and landed in the car park.

So everyone got back safe and there were no injuries as far as we know. Although on the way back to camp we saw an ambulance heading towards the beach.

We never did get to swim, but the soccer game was still on (unlike the gumboot throw!). It was an awesome game anyway. We beat the teenagers 8 - 6.

And on Sunday the weather finally cleared up. After the baptisms, we had a five minute swim. The sea wasn't actually that cold. So yea it was nice.

We had this real cool speaker called Elliot. This is him:

He had exactly the same hairstyle as Brad Dring from Rapture Ruckus. He actually knew Brad though! Anyway, he was the man. He actually stayed and talked with us the whole weekend. Most other speakers just come when they're needed.
So all in all it was a mean weekend. Bring on Church Camp 2010!
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