Friday, May 24, 2013
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Hardest job of the day! Our insructors, Trigger and Bryan testing the childrens zip line while we were in the slate museum...
Our instructors are really cool and taught us some great skills that we are sure to use again.
We didn't get to go on the zip line today though :(
Visit to Vivian Quarry Llanberis slate mine musuem
We went to the SLATE museum after our kyaking experience to see where the slate came from. Slate is actually compressed mud and sediment formed over millions of years in the earth. Welsh slate is some of the oldest on the planet, and many people buy it from all over the world. In the picture below you can see a big mouintin at the back called Vivian quarry, it is carved out where the slate mining took place. We actually saw a man cutting the slate, he made a heart. All those buildings are made out of Slate too.There were lots of train tracks all going to different rooms. My favirout part was when we went to the big water wheel that powered everything. There there was some pretty cool cottages that the miners used to live in, each cottage showed how the miners lived in different ages. We saw cottages from 1861, 1902 and 1961. The miners where treated very badly in the early years and was only paid 1 pound as salary and had to share a 2 roomed cottage with other minng families. They had hard times!
Ahira Varkey
Kayak adventure at Llyn Padarn in Llanberis
Today we went kyaking in the lake next to mount Snowdan called Llyn (lake) Padarn. We all got our wetsuits cags and boyancy aids on, then did a few drills with Trigger on how to use our paddles. You had to rotate the shaft with your hand and you put the blade in the water. Then we got in the water and just floated around to get use to the kyak. After that we started to move around a little bit more and we went through the water and a little bit further to the other side. We played the simpson game then when Edguard and Mr. Rhys-Jones capsized and had to get out of the cold water. Mr Rhys-Jones was trying to do a cool move and tipped right in! Then everybody got out except David,Martin and Gio. We went on a little further to look at the mountain then got out and all had lunch.
Martin Ashcroft
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