Today was an arena day, so we went to the picnic table. The activity was BUNYIPS! Bunyips are Farwell creatures. Each one is a certain color, and they only like their own color. They run away from other colors. Our cabin got assigned to the black bunyip. We made a nest for our bunyips of everything black that we owned. Then, we all got dressed in black. After that, everyone went looking for their bunyips. All the bunyips leave clues so you can find them. Ours led us up past the tennis courts and sports field onto a horse trail. It took our cabin the longest to find our bunyips– they were hidden VERY well! We wandered in circles with our buddy cabin, Stepping Stones, and through the woods. Some of us made the mistake of wearing flip-flops. After many scratches and bug bites, someone in our group thought they saw something black. It was our two bunyips, Becca and Andrew. They were hidden under logs in the middle of the woods.
When we found them we had to bring them back to the “nest.” As soon as the other teams saw us, they tried to scare our bunyips away. They shouted their colors and made the bunyips run away. Our bunyips were covert-op bunyips. We had an awesome nest for our bunyips adventure. Andrew and I had tons of fun being the black bunyips.
(from Becca) We did make our girls work a little harder to find us than the others. Andrew constructed a pretty fabulous hide in the woods, and I’m not sure the kids would ever have found us if I hadn’t forced him to make noise! But, they made us an awesome nest so it was worth getting caught. I love bunyips!
From Knotted Pine.
