Visit to the Taieri River - Outram Glen

We went to Outram Glen to walk by the Taieri River. We could see where the river had been flooded a few weeks ago. We took flat stones from the river bank and tried to skim them across the top of the water. Some people were very good at skimming and could get the stones to bounce along the top of the water and reach the other side of the river. Others of us found it really hard to do and the stones just plopped into the water.

We had to wear our coats and jackets to keep warm because the wind was very cold.

Han Byeul enjoyed collecting all sorts of different stones from the river bank. She found different coloured stones, different sized stones and different shaped stones, She gave away the stones she found. People liked their present of a stone.

We took a group photo of us together on the river bank. Can you see anyone you recognise?

We went to the Taieri Museum picnic area and had a picnic afternoon tea. We all brought some food and shared it and we had some tea from a thermos flask. The tea was nice and warm. It was sheltered from the wind at the picnic place and we enjoyed the view over the Taieri Plain. We had fun watching some waxeyes and fantails fluttering around in a tree. When we were in the car we saw some harriers hovering over some prey.

We travelled around Saddle Hill and into Brighton where we had an ice cream at the dairy and watched the ducks on the creek by the bridge. After this we parked on the Brighton Domain and walked down to the beach.

We found dog tracks in the sand. They look like the tracks of a fairly big dog.

We also followed Mrs Probert's foot prints. She was wearing her walking boots and they made a clear footprint in the sand.

There was a lot of foam on the beach. Look at all the bubbles and the interesting patterns they make.